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To: pnh102

Thanks for that information. I wondered when dual citizenship became fashionable. I was always taught that when one became an American Citizen prior citizenship to another country was to be renounced. As far as I am concerned it should be. I thought too if we took out citizenship in another country we would lose our American citizenship. Who knew..and 0bama is counting on the majority of the American population to be completely stupid about this..so far he is getting away with this crime. The Supremes need to get on this now.


5 posted on 03/11/2010 8:38:53 AM PST by celtic gal
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To: celtic gal
I was always taught that when one became an American Citizen prior citizenship to another country was to be renounced.

That is true. But that's because you are acquiring citizenship and our laws require you to voluntarily relinquish any other citizenship in order to become a U.S. citizen. Citizenship acquired by birth is a different matter. Say, for example, a husband and wife both of whom are U.S. citizens were residing in Great Britain for a year and in 1980 they gave birth to a child. By U.S. law that child is a natural born citizen since both the parents are citizens. But the child is also by law a British citizen since it was born in the U.K. The U.S. cannot strip the child of its British citizenship any more than Great Britain could strip the child of its U.S. citizenship. One nation's laws does not invalidate another nation's laws.

38 posted on 03/11/2010 10:32:11 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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