Posted on 07/08/2003 7:01:01 AM PDT by BluH2o
I hope that is the extent of it. Maybe he wants to run for public office.
I don't think that America supports much dual citizenship.
I tried to find details explaining it on a government site but could not (quickly). Here is a website that went into it. If Petah had been born in Canada to American parents (and raised in America) then he might have qualified. I beleive that our loyalty oath prohibits dual alligence.
Dual Citizenship FAQ: Dual Nationality and United States Law
Countries usually frame their citizenship laws with little or no regard for the citizenship laws of other countries. In my son's case, for instance, the US does not care that Canada thinks he is a Canadian citizen, and Canada does not care that the US thinks he is a US citizen. Sometimes a country may seek to restrict dual citizenship by requiring one of its citizens born with some other citizenship to renounce (give up) the other citizenship upon reaching adulthood. Newly naturalized citizens may similarly be required to renounce their previous citizenship(s); the US has such a requirement, for example, but Canada does not. In some cases, a country will automatically revoke the citizenship of one of its citizens who acquires another country's citizenship by naturalization, even if no explicit renunciation was involved.Where one country requires a citizen to renounce the citizenship of another country, this renunciation may or may not be recognized by the other country. This can sometimes lead to sticky legal situations. Also, countries which require such renunciations differ in how seriously they treat this requirement. In some cases (such as Singapore), an applicant for naturalization may be required by his new country to go to an embassy or consulate of his old country and renounce his old citizenship in a manner prescribed by his old country's laws. Other countries (such as the US in recent years) may treat their own naturalization oaths' renunciatory language as essentially meaningless and take no steps to enforce it at all.
Rush reportedly gave FR a plug yesterday in reference to the moron.org online activism and poll that put Howard Dean on top.
I think that one thread even said he had a hot link on his website to Free Republic in his writeup about conservative activism on the web.
A former Canadian I became a US citizen in 1974. At that time you could not carry dual citizenship. Don't recall the specifics but in order to have US citizenship you had to give up your claim to your original citizenship.
The Oath of Citizenship
I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God. In acknowledgement whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.
Cordially,
This should never be allowed. One or the other, we don't need no steeekin dual loyalties.
"My mom was very, very, very deeply Canadian, and to some extent quite anti-American."
What a condescending, smarmy POS, I'm smarter than you crap is that.
"and to some extent quite anti-American"- ok Peter, some of us graduated college with English backgrounds, and your sentence here is a contrived and an obvious piece of Clintonesque crap verbosity.
In this regard, Brian Williams has nothing on you.
I like it!
I still remember when he loftily intoned "Let us roll". He's the dictionary definition of smarmy to me.
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