My daughter has dual citizenship (Canadian/American). She travels with two passports all the time - makes it easy to come and go from Canada.

The USA will not recognize your other citizenship but they can't force you to give your your citizenship rights (ie, give back your passport from the other country, etc, etc).

 

Can I ask why you want to do this?

 

Yeah, what he said.

 

You can definitely have dual nationality or dual citizenship as a US citizen. And the US recognizes your right to hold dual nationality, as long as your aren't acquiring citizenship elsewhere with the intent to give up your US citizenship. Useful if you want to go to places like Cuba where US travel is prohibited. Travel to Canada on your US passport and then on to Cuba with your second one. However, your problem won't be with losing your US citizenship but having another country grant you it without being born there, having parents who still hold citizenship there, or living there as a resident for a significant amount of time.

Ireland and Italy are two countries I know of that actively grant citizenship to descendants.

 

i'm actually in taiwan now (on visitor visa, us passport)...i've read and have been told different things, so i'm not sure what the deal is. i was born in the states, but my family is also in the states. my parents have taiwanese passports, but i'm not sure if their citizenship is still valid.

to get citizenship, i think you have to do it before you turn 20. to get a passport & resident visa (to work legally, and not need a sponsor ARC), i think you can get that if you're under 28. if you're close to any of those age cutoffs i highly recommend looking that stuff up asap.

are you looking to get a taiwanese citizenship or just citizenship anywhere? i would assume other countries require you to live/work there for awhile, then you can get naturalized. even if it is true that the US doesn't allow dual citizenships, they don't do anything about it. i know plenty of people that have more than one.

also, i think it's hard to lose as well. for example, to get citizenship here in taiwan, you're supposed to renounce citizenship anywhere else before you can get it. but i was told you can tell the US that you renounce their citizenship, and they won't take it away unless you really mean it . how that's decided i have no idea. just remember...you're dealing with government bureaucracy...haha.

 

Yeah yeah why don't you just copy what I said. Geez

 

i would like to possibly buy realestate or aquire assets/retire early. its hard to find a list on the internet of dual citizenship friendly countries. wish there was a database. by "friendly" i mean ease of obtaining without restrictions.

 

Because I like to rephrase what's already been said to maintain my PPD.

 

at least he's honest.

 

Handsome, too.