Originally Posted by nd_eric_77
kind of an interesting area of law. My wife's cousin was born while his parents were vacationing in the US so he is a US citizen. His parents also enabled him to be a citizen of Indonesia (their country of citizenship) and Thailand (no idea how they worked that one out). When my wife and I have our children (first one due late november / early december
), we plan to have them be dual-citizens as well: US & Indonesia.
Yes, it is an interesting subject.
If become a US citizen through naturalization, there is a stipulation that you renounce your allegience to any other country, but if you are born to citizenship in the US, then there is no way for them to force you to renounce any other allegiences.
I've always wondered whether anyone checks to see if you have actually renounced your original citizenship during the naturalization process.
I believe that it's a declaration that you sign as part of the process, but does anyone actually tell the other country?