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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The Swiss Government website seems to indicate that a "naturalization" process exists under their citizenship laws.
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...
In other words, she thinks that it's going to work out fine.
Switzerland looks a lot like Tennessee in some places........
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).
Maybe she'll soon be performing songs in Swiss German.
Good for her. Thanks to all posters with information on Swiss citizenship.
Been to Zurich, as well............
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.
Not surprised. She knows the taxes are going to get worse in America.
I like the Swiss law as a blueprint for an amnesty plan in the USA. Especially the “show the following” part. :)
Apparently she isn’t happy being a citizen of the United States of Ike Turner anymore.
Cant say that I blame her.
Legs?
Sounds like their immigration laws have more teeth, too. Bet the Muslims have a tougher time getting a foothold in that country.
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.”
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