Posted on 06/08/2008 3:25:27 PM PDT by null and void
Ireland: Automatically grants citizenship to the child of an Irish-born citizen. A person can also claim descent based on a grandparent or great-grandparent as long as a grandparent had also claimed descent on or before the date of the person's birth.
Italy: For those born after 1948, citizenship is granted if their father or mother was a citizen at the time of the applicant's birth. Citizenship is also granted under these conditions:
Father is an American and the paternal grandfather was a citizen at the time of the father's birth.
If born after 1948, when the mother is American and the maternal grandfather was an Italian citizen at the time of the mother's birth.
Paternal or maternal grandfather was born in America and the paternal great-grandfather was an Italian citizen at the time of the grandparent's birth.
United Kingdom: Descent based on a grandparent allowable only in exceptional cases.
Greece: Native-born parent or grandparent.
Latvia: Native-born parent.
Cyprus: Father was a citizen.
Holland, Finland, Germany and Norway: Applicant must have been born in wedlock with one parent a citizen, or he can claim descent based only on the mother.
All other European Union countries: A parent was a citizen of the given country. People who can't claim descent can apply after living in the country for a certain number of years.
"... and in about 15 of them, I can be terrorized by feral Muslims that refuse to assimilate and regard me as a target of jihad!"
Suzanne has a EU passport mostly so she can be a self-important, wine bar snot. Apparently, she doesn't realize that the US is 50 "countries".
How does this dual citizenship work? Can one individual hold the passport of two countries? I thought that was illegal.
DUAL CITIZENSHIPS should be made ILLEGAL for U.S. citizens — and that would solve A LOT of problems for the American citizen and taxpayer.
I think all the "economy is falling" is just the Lamestream Media helping the Democrats get more seats in Congress.
It used to be true that one could claim Irish citizenship through a great-grandparent but Ireland changed the law about 20 years ago.Now you can do so through a parent (actually,if either of your parents was an Irish citizen when you were born you're automatically a citizen) or a grandparent.
It used to be illegal but several court decisions have made it legal.These decisions have made it next to impossible for one to lose his/her US citizenship without actually renouncing it.
I’ll gladly have all US liberals go over the pond and stay in Europe. We might take in the few remaining productive and freedom loving Euros in return.
what booming european economy? what a crock.
The biggest culture shock will be the “net income” and the high prices in that socialist wonderland.
*******All you “dual-citizenship” folks——go——AND STAY THERE!!*******
And don’t let the American door hit you on the a$$ as you leave!
This is actually an excellent idea. Democrats get to move to a place where their liberal views will have plenty of company, without polluting our voting booths. This is an idea whose time has come.
With the exception of US/Israeli dual citizenship, our State Department does not officially recognize the concept. It’s not illegal, however, because of the 1967 SCOTUS ruling. As a practical matter, if you hold two passports you have to be careful which one you use when entering a country. If, for example, you hold both a US and an Italian passport and you use the Italian passport to enter Germany and you then get in trouble with the German legal authorities you can’t count on the US embassy to help you out.
It’s also nonsense to say, as did one person in the article, that with US citizenship you can only work in one country (the US). Whether or not you can work legally in a foreign country depends on what kind of visa you enter with. For example, at different times I have worked legally in France and in the UK.
Not surprising. We’ll see more of this until some U.S. bureaucrat sees it as “a problem”.
BTW, Cambodia will sell you citizenship as an investor for about $50K, and Malaysia has a quasi-citizenship retirement program for $35K in *invested* funds, meaning the funds must be invested in a Malaysian bank for a couple years, then you regain access to them to start a business or buy a home or etc. At some point in the process you get a Malaysian passport.
Beys Afroyim (1893-1984) was a Jewish artist born as Ephraim Bernstein in Ryki, Poland. In 1912 he immigrated to the United States. In 1926 he became naturalized as a U.S. citizen. In 1950 he moved to Israel. He voted in an Israeli election in 1951. In 1960, Afroyim tried to renew his U.S. passport, but the State Department refused on the ground that he had lost his citizenship by voting in a foreign election. Afroyim sued Dean Rusk in his official capacity as Secretary of State and head of the State Department, which is responsible both for issuing passports and for dealing with loss of citizenship.
I’m like Atty Levine, born in Canada and my father who;s a US citizen, is from Italy.
I went to Italy years ago and the VAT is 20%. Freakin 20% surcharge. Order a pizza in Italy and it will cost you minimum $45 American...that was 3 years ago. Order red wine, and it’s customary to tip the waiter close to 20% as well..just for gratuities, NOT the tax.
No thanks, at least here in America I go to Little Ceasars and get a 12 inch for $5.
Yes,one can have as many passports as they can qualify for under the citizenship laws of the countries involved.Most western countries (but not all) allow dual/multiple citizenships.Third World-type countries tend not to allow it.
Usually, there’s an elaborate procedure to surrender one’s old passport at the consulate of the nation of origin, in order to obtain the new passport from the adopted nation.
Having two passports, simultaneously, provides good avenues for criminals.
Imagine a Jehadi dodging the authorities of both nations, with the other’s passport!
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