• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    it’s not like dual citizenship isn’t absolutely normal

    The United States doesn’t recognize dual citizenship. When you’re naturalized, you must give up your citizenship to any other country.

    Is that recent? The number of dual American citizens I know in I.T is staggering.

    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      The US will only recognize them as American citizens but that doesn’t have any bearing on their citizenship elsewhere. There’s nothing in the US that would give you something different or extra if you have citizenship elsewhere so it doesn’t make any difference. The US can see you’re an American/French or American/Indian or American/Nigerian but only care about the American part, you being that other thing is irrelevant to the government. So they only “recognize” the US because it’s the only part relevant to the state, they don’t make you renounce anything or anything like that. You can absolutely be a dual, or more, citizen but the US government only recognizes the one it cares about, its own.

      • nastronot@lemmy.zip
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        23 hours ago

        Sounds like what every country would do. In what scenario would the US government need to care about your other citizenship for their purposes.