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I will be taking my US citizenship oath ceremony this Friday. I am thinking of joining the Army National Guard to help me cover my educational expenses. I was wanting to know if anyone had any experience with being a dual citizen and applying for military. Any feedback/comments would be appreciated. Thank you.

September 24th, 2008: Passport arrived :)

September 19th, 2008: US passport approved

September 12th, 2008: Oath Ceremony

August 29th, 2008: Oath appointment

August 20th, 2008: Interview appointment

June 21, 2008: NOA for Interview

February 7th, 2008: Biometrics

January 27th, 2008: NOA for Biometrics appointment

January 14th, 2008: Priority Date according to NOA1

January 18th, 2008: Check cashed

January 14th, 2008: Application received by the California Processing Center

January 6th, 2008: Resubmitted application

December 28th, 2007: 4th Wedding Anniversary

December 26th, 2007: Application received by the California Processing Center

December 18th, 2007: Mailed N-400

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I will be taking my US citizenship oath ceremony this Friday. I am thinking of joining the Army National Guard to help me cover my educational expenses. I was wanting to know if anyone had any experience with being a dual citizen and applying for military. Any feedback/comments would be appreciated. Thank you.

The US doesn't care about dual citizenship, to them you will be American and American only even though you haven't renounced your Pakistan citizenship. It shouldn't affect applying. I would contact the recruiters to double check.

~Laura (UK)

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I will be taking my US citizenship oath ceremony this Friday. I am thinking of joining the Army National Guard to help me cover my educational expenses. I was wanting to know if anyone had any experience with being a dual citizen and applying for military. Any feedback/comments would be appreciated. Thank you.

The US doesn't care about dual citizenship, to them you will be American and American only even though you haven't renounced your Pakistan citizenship. It shouldn't affect applying. I would contact the recruiters to double check.

I am not sure but I know there are certain jobs you can't get if you are a dual citizen. I don't think the army would be one of them. Possibly affects the higher positions. Just contact one of the recruiters thoguh.

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Many of the US's major law enforcement agencies will make you renounce your natural born citizenship like FBI, Secret Service, and I think maybe Border Patrol - CIA and some other intelligence agencies might actually want you to keep both.

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I will be taking my US citizenship oath ceremony this Friday. I am thinking of joining the Army National Guard to help me cover my educational expenses. I was wanting to know if anyone had any experience with being a dual citizen and applying for military. Any feedback/comments would be appreciated. Thank you.

I just checked with my OH about it (he's in the Air Force) and he said you can join up but you may be limited with what security jobs you can get. But he also said people join all the time who are not US citizens.

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~Laura (UK)

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I will be taking my US citizenship oath ceremony this Friday. I am thinking of joining the Army National Guard to help me cover my educational expenses. I was wanting to know if anyone had any experience with being a dual citizen and applying for military. Any feedback/comments would be appreciated. Thank you.
I work in an office which has many military personnel, some of whom have dual citizenship and others who have (or had) foreign-only.

For foreign-onlys, military does mind promotion to officer grades.

Can't say about duals, but security clearances may cause issues.

(edit: Laura/Tom already posted the same)

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Thank you for all the replies. I've applied, let's see how it goes.

September 24th, 2008: Passport arrived :)

September 19th, 2008: US passport approved

September 12th, 2008: Oath Ceremony

August 29th, 2008: Oath appointment

August 20th, 2008: Interview appointment

June 21, 2008: NOA for Interview

February 7th, 2008: Biometrics

January 27th, 2008: NOA for Biometrics appointment

January 14th, 2008: Priority Date according to NOA1

January 18th, 2008: Check cashed

January 14th, 2008: Application received by the California Processing Center

January 6th, 2008: Resubmitted application

December 28th, 2007: 4th Wedding Anniversary

December 26th, 2007: Application received by the California Processing Center

December 18th, 2007: Mailed N-400

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I will be taking my US citizenship oath ceremony this Friday. I am thinking of joining the Army National Guard to help me cover my educational expenses. I was wanting to know if anyone had any experience with being a dual citizen and applying for military. Any feedback/comments would be appreciated. Thank you.

When my hubby was joining AF 7 years ago they made him sign a long paper stating all his violations, residence history (he was an LPR back then) and that he will give up his other citizenship when he becomes USC if necessary. I know that paper was for obtaing security clearance because you have to have one just to join. When he became a USC they made him cut his old passport at his ceremony (I think it was at the ceremony). This is just a reference. We don`t know if that action ment renouncing his old citizenship or not.

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