How many citizenships can you have?

My mom said you can only have dual citizenship. Not really sure what that means. Can you be a citizen of multiple countries, or is there a limit? How does this work?

Answer #1

It is possible to be under multiple ciztenships at a time, even possible to be under none.

Answer #2

*citizenships

Answer #3

It depends on where you live. In certain countries, the government only allows one citizenship and in others, as many as you want. I myself am a citizen of no country since I live under a Green Card and my Moldovan citizenship expired several years ago.

Dual citizenship means you are part of two countries. Such being a Singapore citizen and American Citizen, such as the actor Jet Li is.

Answer #4

an example of a Dual citizenship is my friends dad….he has British citizenship and New Zealand Citizenship. because he was born in new zealand but moved to Britain and has lived here for 30 years.

Answer #5

What does no citizenship mean? Like, what can you do and not do and what happens?

Answer #6

To answer your question further on what I’m allowed to do or not to without citizenship is simple. I cannot claim any Social Security benefits because that is for citizens only, and I give up my voting rights and jury duty. I can however, join the military and get a government job if I have a Green Card and if the job permits non-citizens to be hired.

Answer #7

A person cannot have multiple citzenships, they can only have dual citzenship. IRai, you must be confusing working visa with citzenships, a person can have multiple working visas but not the later.

Answer #8

Dual citizenship isn’t an issue but some countries will prohibit you from having any other citizenship but that country’s. In that case, you would need to renounce your citizenship if you wished to remain a citizen of that country.

I know several people that have dual Russian/US citizenship. As far as paying taxes however, the IRS has a very long arm and will find you and tax you and your income if you keep your US citzenship.

Answer #9

Hi, citizenship is about passports and voting.

I live in Germany, I have a friend whose mother is French and whose father is German. She has two passports, one German, one French. She can vote in the place that she currently lives in. So right now she lives at Paris, ans she can vote in France, but if she ever moves back to Germany, she can vote here. That’s dual citizenship.

I had a classmate who was born in USA but who had been living in South Africa and in Germany. She wanted to be US-Citizen, so she had to travel to the USA and apply to get a passport when she turned 18. She also had to give up South-African and German citizenship because they didn’t allow her to have multiple passports. And she had to request a residence permit in order to stay in Germany and finish high school after that.

Answer #10

@Age Citizenship of a country makes you able to

  • vote there

  • have a passport of that country

  • request aid from the embassy of that country when you have trouble abroad.

But it also obligates you to

  • pay taxes there

  • be required to perform military service there, if the law of that country makes it your duty.

Answer #11

Unless things have changed since last time I considered foreign employment the IRS doesn’t tax foreign earnings under $100,000. At the time I wasn’t in that league so it wasn’t an problem. The US does not recognize dual citizenship. As far as the US is concerned if you are a US citizen you are only a US citizen. That does not prevent other nations from also considering you a citizen though.

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