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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Long process! It will also depend if the parent was Canadian Born Abroad. Laws changed in April 2009. You can apply and see if you qualify. HOWEVER...[b]US does not allow for dual citizenship after 18[/b]. Only Canada. It would depend on what type job she has i.e. Security Clearance etc. No pate answer...

I am married to a Canadian, my one child is dual and my one child is US. I am US. Depends.....on many things.[/quote]

This is not correct. Im US born and got dual Australian citizenship when I was 27. [/quote]

Was this recently?  Because I am trying to get dual citizenship from the country of my spouse, I was born in US and the state dept rep warned me a few months ago that applying to another country could render me stateless.  She scared the crap out of me. [/quote]

They always say that, which is why you have to be prepared. I got mine in 1997 and have renewed my US passport twice, the last time in 2015. The first time I renewed (2001) was a nightmare because the passport officer was not familiar with the Supreme Court rulings that established my right to dual citizenship. Luckily, I had copies of the rulings. But even after she read them, it took her an uncomfortably long time to hand me my new US passport.

Google Supreme Court and US dual citizenship for info about the cases. It's nearly impossible to lose your natural-born citizenship unless you yourself renounce it officially and specifically, and an oath to another country, which is what you take when you get dual citizenship, does not constitute a public renouncement of your birth country. BUT, check with a lawyer, just in case something has changed in the last few years and b/c it's kind of complicated and if they give you hell, you need to know what to say. The second time I renewed, no problem at all.

PS The State Department knows about the rulings, but, for reasons I don't understand, they insist on being jerks about it.[/quote]

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