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Yes it does, but people do it anyways. If you become a U.S. citizen, you're expected to renounce your other nationalities. Edit: The biggest case was Facebook

Yes it does, but people do it anyways. If you become a U.S. citizen, you're expected to renounce your other nationalities. Edit: The biggest case was Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renouncing U.S. citizenship for the tax savings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin 2nd Edit: some discussion on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3979669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3979669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416258 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416258

Grazester 12y ago
You can become a U.S. citizen and maintain citizenship of your country of birth(or others your are holding)if the country wasn't China and a few others listed in the link I have provided. Half of my immediate family have become U.S. Citizens and maintained their other citizenships. http://www.immihelp.com/citizenship/dual-citizenship-recognize-countries.html http://www.immihelp.com/citizenship/dual-citizenship-recogni...
- GFischer 12y ago
  I was told by a friend who's getting U.S. citizenship you have to take an oath renouncing other citizenship.. here it is: "“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen…” from the Oath of Allegiance " http://www.newcitizen.us/dual.html http://www.newcitizen.us/dual.html apparently it is not binding: " the oath has never been enforced to require the actual termination of original citizenship" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#cite_note-25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#c... Edit: can you ask your family if they took that oath, or is the information obsolete? Until now, I thought it was an actual requirement to renounce other citizenships.
  - idlewords 12y ago
    That is still the oath they make you take, but it has no legal consequences. You take it, eat the brownies that the VFW baked for your naturalization ceremony, and happily keep both passports. Source: happily kept both passports.

Grazester 12y ago

You can become a U.S. citizen and maintain citizenship of your country of birth(or others your are holding)if the country wasn't China and a few others listed in the link I have provided. Half of my immediate family have become U.S. Citizens and maintained their other citizenships. http://www.immihelp.com/citizenship/dual-citizenship-recognize-countries.html http://www.immihelp.com/citizenship/dual-citizenship-recogni...

GFischer 12y ago
I was told by a friend who's getting U.S. citizenship you have to take an oath renouncing other citizenship.. here it is: "“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen…” from the Oath of Allegiance " http://www.newcitizen.us/dual.html http://www.newcitizen.us/dual.html apparently it is not binding: " the oath has never been enforced to require the actual termination of original citizenship" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#cite_note-25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#c... Edit: can you ask your family if they took that oath, or is the information obsolete? Until now, I thought it was an actual requirement to renounce other citizenships.
- idlewords 12y ago
  That is still the oath they make you take, but it has no legal consequences. You take it, eat the brownies that the VFW baked for your naturalization ceremony, and happily keep both passports. Source: happily kept both passports.