Dual Citizenship

[Thaim 0]

Does anyone know if Thailand recognizes dual citizenship ?

My wife came here on a K-1 visa right now we are getting ready to file for her Perm. Residency card. She wants to become an American citizen, but does not want to do so if she looses her Thai citizenship. She claims that if she looses her Thai citizenship she will have to forfet all her land and property to her reletives which is something she does not want to do. Any info. on this would be great. Thanks in advance.

[john_and_marlene 162]

Does anyone know if Thailand recognizes dual citizenship ?

My wife came here on a K-1 visa right now we are getting ready to file for her Perm. Residency card. She wants to become an American citizen, but does not want to do so if she looses her Thai citizenship. She claims that if she looses her Thai citizenship she will have to forfet all her land and property to her reletives which is something she does not want to do. Any info. on this would be great. Thanks in advance.

I found this link http://www.cis.org/articles/cantigny/spiro.html

Which states:

Some "sending" states (that is, states with high emigration) are actually encouraging the acquisition of other nationalities. Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Italy, and Thailand are among many recent additions to the list of those countries allowing birth citizens to retain nationality when they naturalize elsewhere.

[anya-D 8]

lots of Thais i know here all have dual citizen... i'm also planing for that too.

[twellspeak 0]

My wife is also planning to have dual citizenship. Your wife is correct, to own land in Thailand you must be a citizen. If she renounced her Thai citizenship, she would forfeit her property.

[symbiosis 0]

Re-opening a very old thread. So, do you simply accept American citizenship (which requires one to renounce oaths to other governments) but simply retain/maintain a Thai passport as well?

[jethro 0]

Re-opening a very old thread. So, do you simply accept American citizenship (which requires one to renounce oaths to other governments) but simply retain/maintain a Thai passport as well?

Pretty much. The US cannot force you to give up citizenship of another country, just like they cannot take your foreign passport, which belongs (technically) to the foreign country.

Others on here have said there are certain countries where you *must* maintain citizenship and the foreign passport as well.

Be aware, once you are a US citizen, you must report all worldly income to IRS. This is different compared to most other countries' income tax laws.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,235]

Pretty much. The US cannot force you to give up citizenship of another country, just like they cannot take your foreign passport, which belongs (technically) to the foreign country.

That's not true. They can, but so far they don't. So far they take us by our words. But all it takes is one President of the United States who requires those who took the Oath of Allegiance to prove that they are not a citizen of another country anymore, and we have the scenario you just outlined. It's highly unlikely that this will ever happen, but it's possible, and it's legal.

[NickD 202]

That's not true. They can, but so far they don't. So far they take us by our words. But all it takes is one President of the United States who requires those who took the Oath of Allegiance to prove that they are not a citizen of another country anymore, and we have the scenario you just outlined. It's highly unlikely that this will ever happen, but it's possible, and it's legal.

You mean like on draft dodging president that recently killed an over 200 year tradition to free travel to Canada, because that idiot considers Canada a security risk. Those terrorist that came here were not only friends of his family, but came here legally as well. Main reason, they had a lot of bucks to spend.

Would say that maintaining dual naturalization as they call it is more of a remote possibility that it will be killed by God knows what idiot will be elected next. After all, its for our safety. And its not dual naturalization, its dual citizenship, no country would give you a passport unless you are a verified citizen of that country. A bunch of hypocrites running MY country.

Certainly cautions are being taken against China by building new bases in Australia, in the meantime, two huge companies, GE and Case tractor are moving to China. With Case, taking away thousands of jobs from Wisconsin, have a huge plant in Racine. And those idiots in Washington are wondering why we have economic problems, they are the same ones permitting stuff like this.

One reason why I started a file on my wife with arguments against the DOS and my senators that they are forcing her to maintain her citizenship in Colombia so she can visit her mom by putting her place of birth on her US passport. She is not a US citizen like she was born here according to the USCIS, but that is an entirely a different government agency than the DOS. Sure, they are both under that new agency called Homeland Security, but also run by a bunch of idiots. The reason why we have problems is because we have too many different agencies with their own policies that not even your congressman knows anything about. How can they with over 1525 different agencies? Homeland Security has done nothing so these agencies can communicate with each other, and even created more law enforcement agencies.

Ironically when you talk to your congressman, say they are helpless in solving these problems, but yet when you talk to these agencies, they say, don't blame us, congress made these laws.

In regards to Happy New Year, know my tax collectors are having a happy one, just got a huge chunk of my money.