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Tina Turner becoming Swiss citizen, giving up US passport
Fox News ^ | 01/25/2013

Posted on 01/25/2013 9:03:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind

What Gerard Depardieu is to France, Tina Turner may be to the United States.

The "Private Dancer" singer is giving up her US passport, in favor of a Swiss one.

"I'm very happy in Switzerland and I feel at home here. ... I cannot imagine a better place to live," Turner told the German newspaper Blick.

Turner has lived in the Zurich suburb of Kuesnacht since the mid-1990s. The local Zuerichsee-Zeitung newspaper said on its website the local council announced its decision to grant the 73-year-old Turner citizenship in an official notice published in Friday's edition.

The decision still requires formal approval from state and federal authorities.

Turner's rep told Zuerichsee-Zeitung the singer wanted to "clarify her situation".

"Tina Turner will therefore also give back her US citizenship," she said.

Depardieu announced he was renouncing his French citizenship because of the country's high taxes, and he was offered Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin.

Turner was born in Nutbush, Tenn.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: citizenship; expat; renouncecitizenship; swiss; switzerland; tinaturner; turner
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To: Oberon
..but it was my understanding that Switzerland does not have a naturalization process..

The Swiss Government website seems to indicate that a "naturalization" process exists under their citizenship laws.

Swiss Citizenship

21 posted on 01/25/2013 9:30:34 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Red State Secession Is The Only Answer)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

RE: I have no problem with her becoming a Swiss citizen. It sounds like a long coming, well considered decision.

The US recognizes dual citizenship. Switzerland does too. See here:

http://www.immihelp.com/citizenship/dual-citizenship-recognize-countries.html

So, why does Tina want to give up her US citizenship? She doesn’t have to... unless of course — her money in Switzerland is ALSO TAXABLE if she were to retain US citizenship...


22 posted on 01/25/2013 9:32:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
"I'm very happy in Switzerland and I feel at home here. ... I cannot imagine a better place to live," Turner told the German newspaper Blick.

In other words, she thinks that it's going to work out fine.

23 posted on 01/25/2013 9:32:52 AM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Switzerland looks a lot like Tennessee in some places........


24 posted on 01/25/2013 9:39:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: Red Badger

I’ve been there several times ( mostly Zurich, where Tina lives ).

And yes, I’d say everyone speaks English (but they’re mostly multi-lingual).


25 posted on 01/25/2013 9:40:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
One should be able to speak in at least one of German (preferably Swiss German), French, Italian or Romansch...

Maybe she'll soon be performing songs in Swiss German.

26 posted on 01/25/2013 9:40:48 AM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Good for her. Thanks to all posters with information on Swiss citizenship.


27 posted on 01/25/2013 9:41:46 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Psalm 73
That’s odd - she doesn’t look Swiss. Hmmmmmm. I dunno
28 posted on 01/25/2013 9:45:13 AM PST by stevecmd
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To: SeekAndFind

Been to Zurich, as well............


29 posted on 01/25/2013 9:45:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: SeekAndFind
A couple I know did a year in Zurich--his rotation to the Swiss office of his company. His comment was "Imagine a country where everyone went to high school together. And their parents went to high school together. And their parents. You'll never be part of it."

When they flew back a couple of times, they'd arrive at some ungodly hour of the morning and go straight to the Denny's by the airport where you could have a huge, inexpensive breakfast served by a smiling waitress, at dawn, seven days a week--all inconceivable ideas in Switzerland. Her description of the neighbors repeatedly instructing her on the exact way the garbage was supposed to be sorted and bundled was hilarious, too.

30 posted on 01/25/2013 9:46:14 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not surprised. She knows the taxes are going to get worse in America.


31 posted on 01/25/2013 9:55:17 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Red Badger
Switzerland looks a lot like Tennessee in some places........

THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS IN TENNESSEE...

SEYMOUR, TENNESSE

MOUNTAINS IN ZURICH

32 posted on 01/25/2013 10:00:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I like the Swiss law as a blueprint for an amnesty plan in the USA. Especially the “show the following” part. :)


33 posted on 01/25/2013 10:04:21 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: SeekAndFind

Apparently she isn’t happy being a citizen of the United States of Ike Turner anymore.

Cant say that I blame her.


34 posted on 01/25/2013 10:04:43 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: SeekAndFind

Legs?


35 posted on 01/25/2013 10:05:34 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: CincyRichieRich

36 posted on 01/25/2013 10:09:10 AM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: CincyRichieRich
RE: Legs?

Your wish is my command, and yes, they're insured ...


37 posted on 01/25/2013 10:10:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: GraceG

Sounds like their immigration laws have more teeth, too. Bet the Muslims have a tougher time getting a foothold in that country.


38 posted on 01/25/2013 10:12:33 AM PST by fattigermaster
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To: fattigermaster

RE: Bet the Muslims have a tougher time getting a foothold in that country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/world/europe/30swiss.html

Swiss Ban Building of Minarets on Mosques

EXCERPT:

GENEVA — In a vote that displayed a widespread anxiety about Islam and undermined the country’s reputation for religious tolerance, the Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a national ban on the construction of minarets, the prayer towers of mosques, in a referendum drawn up by the far right and opposed by the government.

The referendum, which passed with a clear majority of 57.5 percent of the voters and in 22 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, was a victory for the right. The vote against was 42.5 percent. Because the ban gained a majority of votes and passed in a majority of the cantons, it will be added to the Constitution.

The Swiss Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but the rightist Swiss People’s Party, or S.V.P., and a small religious party had proposed inserting a single sentence banning the construction of minarets, leading to the referendum.

The Swiss government said it would respect the vote and sought to reassure the Muslim population — mostly immigrants from other parts of Europe, like Kosovo and Turkey — that the minaret ban was “not a rejection of the Muslim community, religion or culture.”

Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, the justice minister, said the result “reflects fears among the population of Islamic fundamentalist tendencies.”

CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE REST...


39 posted on 01/25/2013 10:16:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: fattigermaster

An illuminated minaret in Zurich. New ones are banned.
40 posted on 01/25/2013 10:16:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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