Dual Citizenship - How much would you pay?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m paying $75 per person to sort out mine (Canada). Passports will be about that again I guess. Worth it for me, especially since we’re contemplating moving north next year.

Are you saying you can buy Canadian citizenship for $75 a person?? And get your kids the almost free college tuition?? Seems too good to be true.

lol, no, that’s the processing fee for the certificate of citizenship. I have the citizenship through my parents same as I assume OP has her Italian citizenship.

My sister is amazed her kids can get the resident tuition even though they pay no CA taxes (husband is Canadian).. We are jealous.

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Anonymous wrote:What places let Americans get duel citizenship and all you have to do is pay money?

I think most people on this thread have a claim to the citizenship via the country’s ancestry laws and the money is spent on gathering/submitting the the documentation of it. It’s not like $ in citizenship out for anyone.

This is so old country. Ours is done online, cheaply, and fast. My kids got their passports delivered to US. They never set foot abroad.
Everything takes longer in Southern Europe.
University is ca $3k a year for IT for foreigner students. If the kids are citizens and register with local address, school is free.
Nobody cares where parents pay their taxes which would be the US for us.

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Anonymous wrote: On the Italian citizenship-my grandfather and great grandparents became naturalized US many years before my birth. I can't figure out if I can claim citizenship or not.

What matters is when the first generation was born vis a vis the immigrant's naturalization date. As long as the immigrant hadn't naturalized at the time of the first generation's birth, the citizenship line is unbroken. It gets complicated if it passes through a female relative pre-1948, though. Get the dates and visit the Facebook group, i think they have a flowchart for eligibility. Here is their site if you're not on Facebook: https://dualusitalian.com/

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Anonymous wrote:My dad is interested in pursuing Italian citizenship, his parents came over from Calabria. He would like to be able to spend a few months at a time living in Italy near his cousins.

If he does this, does it make it easier for me to do the same?

Yes. My husband did it and got extra copies of the necessary documents so that his family could do it. That was necessary because every Italian embassy in the US has its own coverage area and they operate independently for this purpose. My understanding is that if our family members were in the DC region they could just use his file but since they aren't they need to file like it's a new application. This can be a problem because some embassies have years- long wait lists to get bloodline citizenship appointments.

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Anonymous wrote:What places let Americans get duel citizenship and all you have to do is pay money?

Malta has citizen via investment

+1 I know a couple who did this.

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Wait, you can just buy EU citizenship? How?

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I would pay OP. But what about your DH?

I looked into this when Trump took office but didn’t have any options.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone - for everyone that assumed Italy...you are correct! There are a few reasons why it's so expensive. 1. Translations 2. It's considered a "1948 Case" (applying through a maternal line), which means only an immigration lawyer can file for petition for decent. I am confident I can collect all the birth/death/marriage certificates and have them translated, but I cannot get around the immigration lawyer in the 1948 rule.

I'm particularly interested in making an effort because my kids and their families will have greater opportunities starting w/ college and/or future job opportunities. For me - maybe a retirement opportunity though I don't necessarily feel I actually need citizenship for retirement alone. Thanks again for your thoughts!

I have dual EU (france) and US citizenship. It's a great thing to have and could end up being a great benefit to your kids. But for college, I think you need to be a resident to take advantage of tuition for Italian citizen. This goes for most European countries- it is basically no advantage for college having an EU passport.

If anyone can correct me on this, let's hear it. Would love to have this wrong.

Incorrect. Even not being a resident, cost of university is much cheaper in Europe. You also don’t have to bother with student visas or leaving when a visa expires. Having a European passport is very helpful.

The question was: do dual citizens living in the U.S. pay international tuition or do they pay the tuition that residents pay in Italy? The answer is they pay international tuition, the same as any other foreigner. So the previous poster was correct.

As far as comparison to US universities, when you add in flight costs and the cost of local housing, it is often roughly the same, if you are comparing the top Italian universities' international fees compared to something like UVA. It's no big cost savings.

The only advantage is the work visa afterwards as you said.

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OP can you just get citizen ship for one of you and then "chain migrate" the rest eventually?

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Anonymous wrote:I have British /US dual citizenship. I wouldn’t pay 5k for my American DD to get British citizenship because I don’t see a financial advantage. If she wants to go to school there cos will be the same because I pay US taxes not British.
I guess it depends on your income, whether it’s worth it or not, for me it wouldn’t be.

I agree that this is a very personal decision. For example, for us, the kids are going to study in the UK and we will pay foreign fees. But as uk citizens, they will be able to live and work in the UK after graduating, if they want, whereas us citizens can only do that if they get jobs paying certain incomes, which may well change in the future.

I guess my view comes from having partly Jewish ancestry, and the lesson from them was that the insurance of having different options can, at the right time, be priceless.

Not that I think it likely that anything is going to happen here. But thinking about the next election, and Trump, the chance of things going to shit is not zero.

I'm considering this, but out of fear of the progressive left's growing power. They're very anti-Semitic. Please open your eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:I would pay OP. But what about your DH?

I looked into this when Trump took office but didn’t have any options.

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Anonymous wrote:I have British /US dual citizenship. I wouldn’t pay 5k for my American DD to get British citizenship because I don’t see a financial advantage. If she wants to go to school there cos will be the same because I pay US taxes not British.
I guess it depends on your income, whether it’s worth it or not, for me it wouldn’t be.

I agree that this is a very personal decision. For example, for us, the kids are going to study in the UK and we will pay foreign fees. But as uk citizens, they will be able to live and work in the UK after graduating, if they want, whereas us citizens can only do that if they get jobs paying certain incomes, which may well change in the future.

I guess my view comes from having partly Jewish ancestry, and the lesson from them was that the insurance of having different options can, at the right time, be priceless.

Not that I think it likely that anything is going to happen here. But thinking about the next election, and Trump, the chance of things going to shit is not zero.

I'm considering this, but out of fear of the progressive left's growing power. They're very anti-Semitic. Please open your eyes.

But where would you go?

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We looked into it through my father’s side, so not a 1948 case. Although it seemed doable it also seemed time intensive and I don’t see a huge benefit. Maybe my kids will want to work in Europe someday but that’s the only benefit. Supposedly it would make it easier. They won’t go to college there. So no, I wouldn’t pay 15k.

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Anonymous wrote:I have British /US dual citizenship. I wouldn’t pay 5k for my American DD to get British citizenship because I don’t see a financial advantage. If she wants to go to school there cos will be the same because I pay US taxes not British.
I guess it depends on your income, whether it’s worth it or not, for me it wouldn’t be.

I agree that this is a very personal decision. For example, for us, the kids are going to study in the UK and we will pay foreign fees. But as uk citizens, they will be able to live and work in the UK after graduating, if they want, whereas us citizens can only do that if they get jobs paying certain incomes, which may well change in the future.

I guess my view comes from having partly Jewish ancestry, and the lesson from them was that the insurance of having different options can, at the right time, be priceless.

Not that I think it likely that anything is going to happen here. But thinking about the next election, and Trump, the chance of things going to shit is not zero.

I'm considering this, but out of fear of the progressive left's growing power. They're very anti-Semitic. Please open your eyes.

But where would you go?

I would go to Israel!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What places let Americans get duel citizenship and all you have to do is pay money?

I think most people on this thread have a claim to the citizenship via the country’s ancestry laws and the money is spent on gathering/submitting the the documentation of it. It’s not like $ in citizenship out for anyone.

This is so old country. Ours is done online, cheaply, and fast. My kids got their passports delivered to US. They never set foot abroad.

Everything takes longer in Southern Europe.
University is ca $3k a year for IT for foreigner students. If the kids are citizens and register with local address, school is free.
Nobody cares where parents pay their taxes which would be the US for us.

You’ve obviously never dealt with the US immigration service. We shelled out over $5,000 for fees and lawyer costs for my DS’s green card application and suddenly the wait time has gone from 2.5 to 13 years di we will probably have to just abandon the application.