Question about Dual Citizenship?
Does this mean i already have dual citizenship? U.S./Nicaraguan citizenship? What steps, if it means i have dual citizenship, do i have to take for it? I want to get a Nicaraguan passport. I am researching what forms and what i have to do to legally move and live in Nicaragua at the end of this year (in dec.)
Answer:
You have dual Citizenship. I would visit the Nicaraguan Consulate in Los Angeles to find out what documents you have to present to prove your Citizenship. Your parent's birth certificate to prove their Citizenship plus your birth Certificate to prove your relationship with them should be suffice.
Sounds like you already have dual citizenship. You might have to fill out some forms for the Nicaraguan government as a formality but I would assume that you'd already be considered a citizen of both the U.S. and Nicaragua though, technically, Nicaragua might consider you a national rather than a citizen since you've never actually lived there. If you lived there for a few years you'd probably be considered a citizen at that point. The Nicaraguan government would probably just want you to fill out some more paperwork at that point. Governments the world over love their paperwork...
Good luck!
You ought to visit Nicaraguan Consulate. Take with you whatever papers you might have to show identity of you & your parents. The Nicaraguan nation might not even know that you exist.
Check with your parents first regarding the reasons why they came to the USA. There have been intermittent trobuled times in Nicaragua, in which your parents may have fled from some situation there that has not yet been cleared up. You could be placing them at risks you know nothing about, unless you check with them first before contacting the embassy.
Ah, forget it I'm not going to waste my time. Either you is or you ain't american it's up to you, you can't be loyal to both.
National and Citizen are usually interchangeable.
You should contact the U.S. State Dept. first, Then the Nicaraguan Embassy.
The odds are you have Dual Citizenship.
Many countries offer dual citizenship.
So many today have no idea where they came from, who the old ones were in their family who made the decision to leave the homeland and come here. They are rootless. Their parents don't know either - and in many cases -the grandparents don't know either. The are, indeed refugees in this world who suddenly popped into existence 50 or 100 years ago and haven't a clue where they came fro.
It's sad.
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