dual citizenship where is the guide?

[Isabel 0]

He y guys,

I remember there was a step by step guide how to file for us citizenship without giving up ur original one? Anyonre know where it is located now?

Txs in advance ISabel

[Staashi 371]

He y guys,

I remember there was a step by step guide how to file for us citizenship without giving up ur original one? Anyonre know where it is located now?

Txs in advance ISabel

Isabel, I believe Germany is one of the few countries that doesn't allow their citizens to hold dual citizenship. Children can hold it, but adults cannot. I.E. if your children are born in US, you can still go back to Germany and declare them as German citizens, you just can't hold dual yourself. Check out wikipedia @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nation...man_citizenship

Loss of German citizenship

German citizenship is automatically lost when a German citizen voluntarily acquires the citizenship of another country.

The exception is when permission to obtain a foreign citizenship has been applied for and granted in advance of foreign naturalisation. The relevant form is called a Beibehaltungsgenehmigung Details (in German)

Other cases where German citizenship can be lost include:

Persons acquiring German citizenship on the basis of birth in Germany (without a German parent) lose German citizenship automatically at age 23 if they have not successfully applied to retain German citizenship. If it is desired to maintain a foreign citizenship, application must be made by age 21.

A German citizen who voluntarily serves in a foreign army (over and above compulsory military service) from 1 January 2000 may lose German citizenship unless permission is obtained from the German government.

A German child adopted by foreign parents, where the child automatically acquires the nationality of the adoptive parents under the law of the adoptive parents' country. (For example, a German child adopted by Americans prior to February 27, 2001 [the effective date of the Child Citizenship Act of 2000] would not have automatically lost his/her German citizenship, because the child did not automatically acquire United States citizenship by virtue of having been adopted by U.S. citizens.) An exception applies where legal ties to the German parent are maintained.

[edit] Dual citizenship

Although dual citizenship is restricted under German law, it can be held in limited circumstances:

where a child born to German parents acquires another citizenship at birth (e.g based on place of birth, or descent from one parent)

where a German citizen acquires a foreign nationality with the permission of the German government

where a naturalized German citizen, or a child born to non-German parents in Germany, obtains permission to keep their foreign nationality

A senior Social Democratic member Ralf Stegner, who is the interior minister in the regional state of Schleswig-Holstein, has asked the German chancellor to change dual-nationality law to allow dual-nationality to all citizens of Germany. He feels that Germany should allow multi-nationality to integrate many of the Gastarbeiter who live in Germany. [2]

Good Luck!

[Isabel 0]

He y guys,

I remember there was a step by step guide how to file for us citizenship without giving up ur original one? Anyonre know where it is located now?

Txs in advance ISabel

Isabel, I believe Germany is one of the few countries that doesn't allow their citizens to hold dual citizenship. Children can hold it, but adults cannot. I.E. if your children are born in US, you can still go back to Germany and declare them as German citizens, you just can't hold dual yourself. Check out wikipedia @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nation...man_citizenship

Loss of German citizenship

German citizenship is automatically lost when a German citizen voluntarily acquires the citizenship of another country.

The exception is when permission to obtain a foreign citizenship has been applied for and granted in advance of foreign naturalisation. The relevant form is called a Beibehaltungsgenehmigung Details (in German)

Other cases where German citizenship can be lost include:

Persons acquiring German citizenship on the basis of birth in Germany (without a German parent) lose German citizenship automatically at age 23 if they have not successfully applied to retain German citizenship. If it is desired to maintain a foreign citizenship, application must be made by age 21.

A German citizen who voluntarily serves in a foreign army (over and above compulsory military service) from 1 January 2000 may lose German citizenship unless permission is obtained from the German government.

A German child adopted by foreign parents, where the child automatically acquires the nationality of the adoptive parents under the law of the adoptive parents' country. (For example, a German child adopted by Americans prior to February 27, 2001 [the effective date of the Child Citizenship Act of 2000] would not have automatically lost his/her German citizenship, because the child did not automatically acquire United States citizenship by virtue of having been adopted by U.S. citizens.) An exception applies where legal ties to the German parent are maintained.

[edit] Dual citizenship

Although dual citizenship is restricted under German law, it can be held in limited circumstances:

where a child born to German parents acquires another citizenship at birth (e.g based on place of birth, or descent from one parent)

where a German citizen acquires a foreign nationality with the permission of the German government

where a naturalized German citizen, or a child born to non-German parents in Germany, obtains permission to keep their foreign nationality

A senior Social Democratic member Ralf Stegner, who is the interior minister in the regional state of Schleswig-Holstein, has asked the German chancellor to change dual-nationality law to allow dual-nationality to all citizens of Germany. He feels that Germany should allow multi-nationality to integrate many of the Gastarbeiter who live in Germany. [2]

Good Luck!

great that just sucks. Then I have no clue what I am gonna do.

uff thanks tho