Posted on 04/10/2025 8:50:03 AM PDT by dennisw
Swap Lake
When my wife became a citizen, there is a line in the oath about being loyal to the US and not your former country, BTW she is from Russia. Became a citizen in August 2000...As to me - Furthest back ancestor mother’s side mid 1600s (Jamestown Va) from England - most recent paternal Grandfather 1891 from Germany
I hope she considers herself lucky. If she’d gone to Ukraine and donated to Russia, she would have been arrested, put in a uniform, and sent to the front by Zelensky.
I agree. My grandfather had to swear allegiance on his naturalization application to the U.S. when he became a citizen in 1920, and had to proclaim he no longer had allegiance to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. How can someone have dual citizenship when swearing to forfeit your allegiance to your former country and its leader is mandatory to become a citizen of the U.S.
“the day Russia launched its attack on its western neighbor”
Most of the ancestors on my mother’s side of the family were from Europe, mainly England. 9th Great-Grandfather came over on the Mayflower in 1620. Later generations moved to Canada after the Revolutionary War. They mainly consisted of Loyalists. That’s where my mother was born.
My father was born in Holland and came here with his two brothers and their parents in 1913. My grandfather took an oath and signed his application for citizenship swearing he had no allegiance to the Queen of the Netherlands, and would be loyal to the U.S. That’s why I don’t understand how anyone who becomes a citizen here, can have dual citizenship in another country. That’s another reason why I don’t believe there is such a thing as birthright citizenship. A child whose illegal parent still owes allegiance to the country they came from, can’t become a citizen even if they’re born here until that parent becomes a citizen of this country, or the child turns 18 and can apply for citizenship themself.
Im waiting for a judge to step in and order her sent back to Russia.
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