Citizens of Convenience: How many passports do you hold?

[Anonymous]

My daughters have 2, but will try 3rd for EU membership /can work abroad if necessary

[Anonymous]

My moms family has been here since the 1600s and my dads family is French Canadian and here since the late 1800s but I don’t qualify for Canadian citizenship. I travel plenty and have not felt the need for another passport. I feel American through and through.

[Anonymous]

My husband and kids have EU passports. I don’t. Kids have found it useful for study and currently for travel. We talk a lot about the family story that led their grandparents here and are planning a family trip to the home country but want to get some genealogy help lined up before we go. Given the way the US is going I’d especially like my daughter to have the option to leave if the US becomes intolerably inhospitable to women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My moms family has been here since the 1600s and my dads family is French Canadian and here since the late 1800s but I don’t qualify for Canadian citizenship. I travel plenty and have not felt the need for another passport. I feel American through and through.

You do know Canada changed its citizenship laws last year and pretty much anyone who had an ancestor live lived there is now claimed as a citizen of Canada. Pretty much a couple of forms and a family tree is needed.

I assume you’re yet another wealthy American of privilege so you’ll be to grow your collection of passports like baseball cards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband and kids have EU passports. I don’t. Kids have found it useful for study and currently for travel. We talk a lot about the family story that led their grandparents here and are planning a family trip to the home country but want to get some genealogy help lined up before we go. Given the way the US is going I’d especially like my daughter to have the option to leave if the US becomes intolerably inhospitable to women.

Ummm. You haven’t lived in Europe have you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have three. I think it is dumb to live just with one passport, but most of Americans never have been through hardship caused by the government, so they would not understand the need to be ready to leave at any time.

I’d love another passport. My relatives have been in this country since before 1850 though, so what options do I have? A quick google search says Poland requires emigration after 1920, Germany 1870, only applies one generation out for England and two generations for Ireland.

To say I’m dumb because I don’t have a simple link to another country seems a bit short sighted.

The position of the ppp is exactly the mentality that I’m hearing from multi-passport holders.

Slo, for Poland. You generally need an ancestor who emigrated after 1950 if you’re trying to obtain citizenship by ancestry. You can still go through the naturalization process if you want it that badly.

And if your grandparents or great grandparents were Polish Jews, forget it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have three. I think it is dumb to live just with one passport, but most of Americans never have been through hardship caused by the government, so they would not understand the need to be ready to leave at any time.

I’d love another passport. My relatives have been in this country since before 1850 though, so what options do I have? A quick google search says Poland requires emigration after 1920, Germany 1870, only applies one generation out for England and two generations for Ireland.

To say I’m dumb because I don’t have a simple link to another country seems a bit short sighted.

The position of the ppp is exactly the mentality that I’m hearing from multi-passport holders.

Slo, for Poland. You generally need an ancestor who emigrated after 1950 if you’re trying to obtain citizenship by ancestry. You can still go through the naturalization process if you want it that badly.

And if your grandparents or great grandparents were Polish Jews, forget it.

I met Polish Jews in Poland in the 2000s. It is not impossible. I would think the hardest thing would be having extant paperwork.

The other difficulty is that if your grandmother married a non-Polish citizen (like an American) before 1951, she would have lost her Polish citizenship bc like in other places, women derived their citizenship from their fathers and if married, their husbands.

[Anonymous]

If you hold multiple passports, how are you contributing to all of your countries?

[Anonymous]

I'm from the UK but only have one passport, my US passport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you hold multiple passports, how are you contributing to all of your countries?

I pay taxes and own property in 3 countries. I work in 2 countries.

[Anonymous]

More than one shows lack of commitment to any country and undependable. They should enforce the usa citizenship requirement of denouncing all other country allegiance m

[Anonymous]

EU and USA. I live in one and was born in the other one. Hoping to live in both places in retirement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband and kids have EU passports. I don’t. Kids have found it useful for study and currently for travel. We talk a lot about the family story that led their grandparents here and are planning a family trip to the home country but want to get some genealogy help lined up before we go. Given the way the US is going I’d especially like my daughter to have the option to leave if the US becomes intolerably inhospitable to women.

This is pretty silly. You do know that abortion is regulated in European countries, right? What exactly do you think would happen in the U.S.?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More than one shows lack of commitment to any country and undependable. They should enforce the usa citizenship requirement of denouncing all other country allegiance m

+100

[Anonymous]

I have dual, US and EU. I use the EU all the time to stay for months to years in Europe, and to travel. Plus it lets me pass ad a min American at a time when much of the world looks down on us. It also gives my immediate family rights to accompany me. Why wouldn’t someone do it if they’re eligible? To be an American only these days is to be a stooge.