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How many of you International nesties have dual citizenship?
and if you do, why did you get it?
if you don't why don't you?
Re: How many of you International nesties have dual citizenship?
I'm in the same boat, though I should be eligible within the next year or so. I'm definitely getting it. It would be make work and travel much easier.
And DH says he doesn't want American citizenship either. He says he'll get his green card through a job if he finds one (Mr. Independent, I guess). But I think he'll cave and want it eventually. For ease and for voting.
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My husband wants me to eventually become an American Citizen but im not American - Im British so really want to get dual.
like someone said not just as its important for me but for my future child - i want them to have the opportunity to study in the UK if they so choose or the US.
How long does one have to live in the country before you can apply for dual citizenship?
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No: Norway doesn't allow dual citizenship.
I still have to live here three more years and learn Norwegian to be eligible, but even then, I'm not quite ready to give up my US citizenship yet.
Next summer I will get my British citizenship. As a few of the other girls said, I don't have to worry about going away in a certain time frame, I can move elsewhere in the EU, we could move back to the US and then decide to come back here to problem no visas again.
My children will be duel citizens anyway so that is not an issue for me.
My H didn't want to become American at first just have a Green Card forever until we went through the visa process here and all it's costs. Then he saw how much easier it would be to be a citizen so we could go back and forth between countries no problems.
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Both dh and I are going to begin the process this year to get our British citizenship and I will have mine (hopefully) by next year. Both my kids have dual citizenship (American and Greek), but will also be getting British citizenship since they're entitled to it.
I'm getting it b/c why not? But, a big reason is if anything ever happens in the US then at least I will have a back up. British citizenship will allow me to work not only in the UK but also in Europe.
I have dual UK and US. I wanted to be able to vote - that was veryimportant to me. Plus, I don't trust the Home Office to make it near impossible inthe near future... I can totally be two at once - contrary to what I thought once upon a time. I'm not British, and I'm nto quite American any more, yet I'm both at once.
DH wouln't naturalise if we moved to the US, even to vote. (I've asked.) IT's too much of an identity thing for him. That said, if he was there for as long as I've been here, he might feel differently.
I answered some of this above (from my phone, hence the other login, grr), but my kids both have dual UK/US citizenship, and my British dh will get his US passport in a year, since he can have both. My one regret about moving back to the US is that if we had stayed one more year I could have gotten my UK citizenship.
LMBCI, how long it takes for you to get dual citizenship depends on the country. Are you talking about the US? If you are here on a marriage green card it is 3 years, if you are here on a different green card it is 5 or 7 years.
Thanks for this! I am talking about the US - we are moving there in 6 weeks and yes im going on a spouse visa.
Just to clarify, unless the Netherlands makes your daughter choose at 18 then she can keep both. The US does not make a dual citizen choose at 18 anymore.
I'm dual Australian and British.
Took me 8 years since I went: Commonwealth working holiday (2 years)
Work Permit (5 years)
Indefinite Leave to Remain (1 year)
= citizenship
Same reasons as previous posters - no ties to visa restrictions and time spent out of the country ever again, less hassle travelling through EU, opportunity to live / work anywhere in EU.
Also, it makes me feel like Jason Bourne since one passport is in my maiden name and I have blonde hair, the other in my married name with brunette hair. I often wonder whether I have the ability to kick *ss instinctively, but the situation hasn't come up yet.
I`m a citizen of Slovakia only.
I`m thinking about getting my hungarian citizenship sorted out, I`m eligible based on heritage.
I could have gotten the UK one, while I was living there, but it didn`t make much sense to pay for all that, since we were already talking about me moving over to the US at that time. Plus I alreaddy have an EU passport.
As soon as it`s possible, I will probably apply for the US citizenship.
So eventually I`ll have 3
I'm sure you're right. He's just being a stubborn a** for now. He likes to think he's superior to Americans and he doesn't need my help or anything. He know it drives me crazy when he says these things. Plus, he doesn't want me to get into the process yet since we don't even know if we'll end up there or not. Needless worries for now. Especially since we're dealing with SA permanent residency at the moment.
At the moment I only have US citizenship. I got my ILR in April, so I'm not eligible for British Citizenship for another few years yet. I do plan on going for it, even though it's crazy expensive. No real reason not to, kwim?
When we move to the US, DH will apply for his green card and then eventually naturalize. DS already has dual citizenship - American through me and British through DH.
My situation is pretty identical to frlbc (I hope I got that right, the new names still throw me!). My husband is from N. Ireland and holds UK citizenship and a US greencard. He moved here on a work sponsored visa but switch to a marriage based green card when it expired. He has not decided if he will pursue citizenship but I think he will. He originally said he wouldn't (when we lived in the UK and it was hypothetical) but the longer we're here the more I think he's realized its not as big a deal as he thought it would be and he should do it.
My son was born in the UK and has both UK and US citizenship. My daughter was born here and so far we haven't done the UK paperwork but we will soon.
I also regret not staying in the UK long enough to get citizenship and a passport. It would make our lives SO much easier.