Dual Citizenship

[Dakine 26]

It's amazing how many of you are NOT aware of what lies ahead of you in the immigration process and how you will be affected.

What? Just go for US citizenship and see what happens?

http://www.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_con...9&Itemid=40

I find your statement quit assuming and arrogant. I am sorry we all aren't as smart as you, I feel unworthy of even existing on this earth when I am in your shadow. Everyone starts somewhere. If you look at my timeline, we just submitted the K1 Visa, that means we still have years to go until she could even apply to become a citizen. But of course, you're omniscience, you already know this. We're trying to plan ahead, we know the general course of which to take, but we don't know all the details.

In any case, thanks for the link.

Sorry I didn't mean to be a know it all. Just trying to help others get a early start.

Glad I could help with the link.

[hotairguy 0]

If you just got married your wife can not HOLD DUAL Citizenship. The law changed many years ago and the only ones

that can DUAL it are those children that have one of the parents as a U.S. citizen.

To answer your question. First if she becomes a U.S. citizen she looses the right to own property and the Medical from the Philippines. She is not U.S.A certified (LOL) and her connection to the Philippines is only her past not her future.

In my case I want my wife to stay a Philippine citizen and hold Permanent residence here in the U.S.A. that way we can own property in the philippines and she has the best of both worlds. If I die it is then up to her if she wants to break the ties to the Philippiens which I would feel she WILL NOT.

We are build a house in CDO Cagayan De Oro and that is not possible if she was to be a U.S. citizen we would have to put it in her Mom and Dads name. NO THANKS.

Rosie and David

This is incorrect. When a filipino takes the oath to become a US citizen, he or she gives up the Philippine citizenship at that moment. If you check the website of the Philippine embassy, you will find the forms needed to complete to reclaim your Filipino citizenship. It is not a difficult process but you will need to appear at the embassy to retake the oath. You then enjoy being a dual citizen. Check with the embassy, here in Colorado the embassy staff held an event where they came to Colorado for the new passports and dual citizenship processing locally.

You will only be required to pay taxes to the Philippines on money you earn IN the Philippines, not money earned in the US.

Marilyn and Peter.

[VanessaTony 3,567]

"The following is a partial list indicating which countries recognize dual citizenship. The list is based primarily on a survey of every country in the world. The question presented was "If a citizen of (the country in question) acquires U.S. citizenship, does he or she retain or lose (the country in question's) citizenship? In the list below, "Retain" means that the individual DOES NOT lose his or her prior citizenship upon naturalizing in the U.S. "Lose" means that the individual DOES lose his or her prior citizenship. Where possible, the list in annotated to provide additional relevant information."

http://www.us-immigration.com/information/...itizenship.html

The Phillipines is in this list as "retain"... so I'm really not sure what you're all talking about... I know that with my Australian and UK citizenship I will retain them on becoming a US citizen, and I don't have to DO anything to retain them. I just do. This could be because I have passports for both... I don't know... but yeah. Double check with your consulate, or government, but the US does not ask you to "dump" your previous citizenship on becoming a US citizen.

To quote: "The concept of dual citizenship recognizes that a person may have and exercise rights of nationality in two countries and be subject to the responsibilities of both. The mere fact that he/she searched the right of one citizenship does not mean that he/she renounces the other. Nonetheless, official U.S. policy has been to discourage the incidence of dual nationality. The Government accepts but does not recognize or approve of dual nationality. The Government accepts it: "only as the result of separate conflicting laws of other countries."

Hope this helps.