Dual Citizenship?

[Misty1979 0]

So... since I've started looking into this whole process as of March last year, I've never come up with a conclusive answer about whether you can be a Canadian/American citizen once immigrating to the US. My family wants to know, since keeping my Canadian status will make it easier to visit them in Canada.

Of course, my husband will be happy with me just staying a permanent resident in the US, but would be even happier if I was an American citizen too, so if dual citizenship is possible, thats the direction I want to go.

Anyone know how this works?

Thanks in advance for your replies!

[Flames9_RN 358]

YES, u can remain a canadian citizen, thus you will have dual citizenship. yees during the USA citizen ceremony you wil ldenounce your "other" citizenships, BUT Canada does not recognize it, thus you wil have dual! I do belive USA only sees you as an American citizen though. Short answer is YES!!!

[Melyssa 0]

So... since I've started looking into this whole process as of March last year, I've never come up with a conclusive answer about whether you can be a Canadian/American citizen once immigrating to the US. My family wants to know, since keeping my Canadian status will make it easier to visit them in Canada.

Of course, my husband will be happy with me just staying a permanent resident in the US, but would be even happier if I was an American citizen too, so if dual citizenship is possible, thats the direction I want to go.

Anyone know how this works?

Thanks in advance for your replies!

I believe the answer is yes but it is/can be quite expensive. Not sure how expensive though. And I have no idea how it works, I just know of someone who is a dual citizen

Edited May 5, 2007 by melytha

[Misty1979 0]

Wow that's awesome!

Thanks for your replies

[KarenCee 3]

Here's the information on naturalisation which includes the cost. My husband plans on doing the dual cit thing as well. When the time is right, we plan on doing the necessary steps to allow me to become a dual cit in Canada.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00045f3d6a1RCRD

Of course, by the time we're even at the point of naturalisation the new fee increase will have long taken effect so this price will go up dramatically.

Edited May 5, 2007 by KarenCee

[Flames9_RN 358]

The only cost associated with the process is to become a USA citizen, there isnt another fee to be "dual " citizen!! there are plus and minues and this has been brought up numerous timees in the Canada section, as wel as the naturalization section on VJ! Personally i would prefer not to be a USA citizen, but in my situation thats impossible, oh well,lol Best of luck

[neiks 19]

Personally i would prefer not to be a USA citizen,

Is that because they forbid you to go with 100ft of Tims? FIrst it was Cuba now it's Tims's.

[Flames9_RN 358]

My restriction To tims ends on June 28th!! Going home for nearly a month!! Was hoping to just chill, but it appears my parents wil be moving from Saskatoon to kamloops!! So I get suckered into packing,lol! Well shouldnt be too bad as they plan on having a huge garage sale and donating lots of it!!! As long as they keep me ful of Timmies and beer, I'm happy!!

Attached is my Tims clock i won, pretty cheap looking!! lol Appears al they did was photocopy the Tims emblem on white paper, and through on some #'s!! Seller was from NS, so never trust a blue noser,lol

[KarenCee 3]

My restriction To tims ends on June 28th!! Going home for nearly a month!! Was hoping to just chill, but it appears my parents wil be moving from Saskatoon to kamloops!! So I get suckered into packing,lol! Well shouldnt be too bad as they plan on having a huge garage sale and donating lots of it!!! As long as they keep me ful of Timmies and beer, I'm happy!!

Attached is my Tims clock i won, pretty cheap looking!! lol Appears al they did was photocopy the Tims emblem on white paper, and through on some #'s!! Seller was from NS, so never trust a blue noser,lol

Now you've got me wanting to check out the Tim's stuff on eBay!

LOL....NS blue nosers....that made Joel laugh.

Edited May 6, 2007 by KarenCee

[Cassie 8]

Seller was from NS, so never trust a blue noser,lol

*cough*

[Eli 0]

Yay Kamloops! Beautiful city, too many hills. I still have a bag of stuff I forgot with my roommate in Kamloops when I left. Think you could pick it up for me?

-Eli-

[warlord 73]

Yep you get the lovely pleasure of not waiting for one nations passport to come in, but 2 now. You would just need to use your US passport when comming back to the US, but you could use either to get into any other country as you wish. I honestly don't care about the Canadian one now that I'm a US citizen, but my parents suggested it's always good to get both passports.

Guess the only way to acutally lose your Canadain one is to declare an oath in front of someone in Canada (some government official). So just keep both and start a citizenship collection or something...

[ladykelia 0]

So... since I've started looking into this whole process as of March last year, I've never come up with a conclusive answer about whether you can be a Canadian/American citizen once immigrating to the US. My family wants to know, since keeping my Canadian status will make it easier to visit them in Canada.

Of course, my husband will be happy with me just staying a permanent resident in the US, but would be even happier if I was an American citizen too, so if dual citizenship is possible, thats the direction I want to go.

Anyone know how this works?

Thanks in advance for your replies!

I am 90% sure that you will be able to be a dual citizen if you so wish. Canada does not make you revoke your citizenship when you adopt another one. You husband however, would not be able to become a dual citizen if you both decided to move back to Canada. If he wanted to become a citizen of Canada he would most likely have to relinquish his US citizenship.

http://www.amcits.com/dual_citizenship.asp (maybe this is moderately helpful, not sure)

[DeadPoolX 9]

So... since I've started looking into this whole process as of March last year, I've never come up with a conclusive answer about whether you can be a Canadian/American citizen once immigrating to the US. My family wants to know, since keeping my Canadian status will make it easier to visit them in Canada.

Of course, my husband will be happy with me just staying a permanent resident in the US, but would be even happier if I was an American citizen too, so if dual citizenship is possible, thats the direction I want to go.

Anyone know how this works?

Thanks in advance for your replies!

I am 90% sure that you will be able to be a dual citizen if you so wish. Canada does not make you revoke your citizenship when you adopt another one. You husband however, would not be able to become a dual citizen if you both decided to move back to Canada. If he wanted to become a citizen of Canada he would most likely have to relinquish his US citizenship.

http://www.amcits.com/dual_citizenship.asp (maybe this is moderately helpful, not sure)

Since when has that been the case? As far as I know (and have read), both U.S. and Canadian citizens can become citizens of each other's countries without losing their own citizenships. Just as it's very difficult to lose Canadian citizenship, it's extremely difficult to lose U.S. citizenship. You have to show "intent to give up" U.S. citizenship in order to lose it; otherwise, you keep it.

You might want to check this link here for more information on dual-citizenship. Specifically, the U.S. side of things. It explains that the USC does not lose his or her citizenship by taking on another country's citizenship.

Edited May 8, 2007 by DeadPoolX

[warlord 73]

So... since I've started looking into this whole process as of March last year, I've never come up with a conclusive answer about whether you can be a Canadian/American citizen once immigrating to the US. My family wants to know, since keeping my Canadian status will make it easier to visit them in Canada.

Of course, my husband will be happy with me just staying a permanent resident in the US, but would be even happier if I was an American citizen too, so if dual citizenship is possible, thats the direction I want to go.

Anyone know how this works?

Thanks in advance for your replies!

I am 90% sure that you will be able to be a dual citizen if you so wish. Canada does not make you revoke your citizenship when you adopt another one. You husband however, would not be able to become a dual citizen if you both decided to move back to Canada. If he wanted to become a citizen of Canada he would most likely have to relinquish his US citizenship.

http://www.amcits.com/dual_citizenship.asp (maybe this is moderately helpful, not sure)

Since when has that been the case? As far as I know (and have read), both U.S. and Canadian citizens can become citizens of each other's countries without losing their own citizenships. Just as it's very difficult to lose Canadian citizenship, it's extremely difficult to lose U.S. citizenship. You have to show "intent to give up" U.S. citizenship in order to lose it; otherwise, you keep it.

You might want to check this link here for more information on dual-citizenship. Specifically, the U.S. side of things. It explains that the USC does not lose his or her citizenship by taking on another country's citizenship.

Being a dual citizen right now I can tell you that you do not lose your Canadian citizenship. It's been stated in here already. Read several of the earlier posts in this topic...