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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
According to the Italian consulate, submitting the proper documents would cause them to "recognize" my Italian citizenship, not "grant" citizenship. It's a jure sanguinis situation.

If it is not recognized right now, then submitting those documents by you would come at a cost to your current citizenship in one way or another, just like Obama's submissions to renew his Indonesian citizenship/passport would have been at the cost of his US citizenship, that is, if he ever actually had it.

375 posted on 12/01/2008 7:11:30 PM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip
If it is not recognized right now, then submitting those documents by you would come at a cost to your current citizenship in one way or another, just like Obama's submissions to renew his Indonesian citizenship/passport would have been at the cost of his US citizenship, that is, if he ever actually had it.

Not true. From the State Dept. website:

A U.S. citizen may acquire foreign citizenship by marriage, or a person naturalized as a U.S. citizen may not lose the citizenship of the country of birth.U.S. law does not mention dual nationality or require a person to choose one citizenship or another. Also, a person who is automatically granted another citizenship does not risk losing U.S. citizenship. However, a person who acquires a foreign citizenship by applying for it may lose U.S. citizenship. In order to lose U.S. citizenship, the law requires that the person must apply for the foreign citizenship voluntarily, by free choice, and with the intention to give up U.S. citizenship.
Before you get excited about that last part, the standard for actually losing your US citizenship is pretty strict. Unless Obama went into a US consulate in Djakarta and swore an oath of renunciation, he didn't lose his US citizenship.
458 posted on 12/02/2008 9:28:40 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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