[tkathy]

I thought Israelis have duel citizenship.

[tkathy]

I also read where we "rescued" many thousands of US citizens from Lebanon. I am really glad to hear we don't recognize duel citizenship.

[Red Dog #1]

I’m not an immigration lawyer and didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, however……My wife had to renounce her citizenship when she was naturalized and her home country still recognizes her as a citizen of that country. Perhaps Israel has a similar policy.

[Elyse]

The US doesn't recognize the dual citizenship, but people can have it. If the country you came from does not care that you swore allegiance to the US and they allow you to keep your citizenship or if you marry someone from another country or are born in another country and they automatically give you citizenship, then you can have dual citizenship. You just can't actively apply for citizenship to another country.

The US says they don't recognize dual citizenship, but that is just ridiculous in my mind because you still have dual allegiance if you can have two passports. I believe that you should have to denounce any citizenship to other countries in order to be a US citizen, period.

[Constantine XI Palaeologus]

"I thought Israelis have duel citizenship."

Me too. Also, apparently there're Mexican-American dual citizens as well as Saudi-American ones (there's a brilliant idea).

Anyhoo, I always thought that when becoming U.S. citizens, folk had to renounce their allegiance to their former country. Apparently we officially do not recognize it, but tolerate it nevertheless. Apparently voting in a foreign election, serving in a foreign army, or swearing allegiance to another country used to remove U.S. citizenship, but no longer.

http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20020515dual0515p4.asp

(Please note, I do not have the slightest clue as to the politcal orientation of the above source, I just found it while searching)

[Doctor Stochastic]

I thought Israelis have duel citizenship.

Like Golda Meir; I seem to remember that she never renounced here US citizenship.