Citizenship VS Greencard Opinions?

[-Trinity- 513]

I thought about this too. My husband would love it if I become US citizen, but I'm already dual citizen and I honestly don't know if it's even possible to add another citizenship, and I'm also not sure what the benefits would be or reprecussions for that matter. 

 

From point of view of my husband, who is very patriotic, it's common sense to obtain US citizenship. But I'm not going to give up my other nationalities, those are part of who I am as a person, my Identity.

 

Bottom line: it's a good question and one I often think about myself.

Edited November 4, 2017 by Beachlover

[Boiler 43,430]

The majority on here would not need to give up anything else, I know India you do and there was a problem with Germany.

 

 

[caliliving 606]

16 minutes ago, Beachlover said:

I thought about this too. My husband would love it if I become US citizen, but I'm already dual citizen and I honestly don't know if it's even possible to add another citizenship, and I'm also not sure what the benefits would be or reprecussions for that matter. 

 

From point of view of my husband, who is very patriotic, it's common sense to obtain US citizenship. But I'm not going to give up my other nationalities, those are part of who I am as a person, my Identity.

 

Bottom line: it's a good question and one I often think about myself.

You can be a tri citizen.

.i know a girl that has Australian Poland and USA passports! Canada allows USA dual citizenship. But, do you need it? No bc the Canadian passport is just as powerful as an American one. 

[Ontarkie 13,915]

2 hours ago, Lemonslice said:

Anyone with assets, or income that is a little higher, should also carefully analyze the financial repercussions. 

This is exactly why I became a USC. I have kids, 2 were born here in Arkansas, if something ever happened to my husband and I wasn't a USC his family actually could take everything away from me. Seems some States have a few messed up laws on the books. My kids and I could lose everything if his family wanted to be nasty. BTW I wouldn't put it pass his brother and his wife to do it.  

[-Trinity- 513]

22 minutes ago, caliliving said:

You can be a tri citizen.

.i know a girl that has Australian Poland and USA passports! Canada allows USA dual citizenship. But, do you need it? No bc the Canadian passport is just as powerful as an American one. 

That's what I was thinking too. I have a Dutch passport and I've always been able to travel anywhere with it.

[-Trinity- 513]

27 minutes ago, Ontarkie said:

This is exactly why I became a USC. I have kids, 2 were born here in Arkansas, if something ever happened to my husband and I wasn't a USC his family actually could take everything away from me. Seems some States have a few messed up laws on the books. My kids and I could lose everything if his family wanted to be nasty. BTW I wouldn't put it pass his brother and his wife to do it.  

Good you mention this, I should look into Florida laws about that. My husband's family would never do anything ( I believe) , but he has a kid with his ex and I'm not sure what the consequences would be if he passes. I don't mind his assets to go to his son, but not sure how this would affect my assets.

Edited November 4, 2017 by Beachlover

[-Trinity- 513]

39 minutes ago, Boiler said:

The majority on here would not need to give up anything else, I know India you do and there was a problem with Germany.

 

 

I know dual citizenship is a big political issue in the Netherlands. There are ways to keep it though, but they rather want people to just have one nationality.

[NYCruiser 423]

7 hours ago, NikLR said:

It's not like he would be giving up UK citizenship by one day becoming a US citizen.  Never having to worry about visas or the VWP and all that entails is a powerful attractant for people. 

As a Canadian citizen who doesn't even need to worry about the VWP, citizenship holds even less appeal to me. 

People who travel tend to like having US citizenship too but it looks like Germany is the newest most powerful passport.

 

The world's 25 most powerful passports

1. Germany, 176 countries can be visited without a visa

2. Sweden, 175

=3. Denmark, Finland, Italy, Spain, United States, 174

=8. Austria, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, United Kingdom, 173

=16. Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, 172

=19. Canada, Greece, Portugal, Switzerland, 171

=23. Australia, South Korea, 170

25. Iceland, 169

 

But in all honesty most countries tend to like you more without the American flag on your backpack.  

 

yes you can constantly renew every 10 years. i know people that have for 40 years from the UK that have no interest in being a US citizen. 

This is one survey. I have seen others where Sweden and the US are #1. However, I can see your bias

1 hour ago, caliliving said:

You can be a tri citizen.

.i know a girl that has Australian Poland and USA passports! Canada allows USA dual citizenship. But, do you need it? No bc the Canadian passport is just as powerful as an American one. 

Agreed. I have tri-citizenship too

US, UK and Kenyan

[Jeanne Adil 1,651]

All have their own personal reasons for getting or not getting it

What will surprise u is the fact that once your kids are grown, leaving the US (if your kids are in college as college requires your income paperwork, or if they marry and have children -your grandchildren)  is going to be more difficult than u think

Kids are not permanently gone when grown

they always need us and we always need them

[Lemonslice 4,553]

1 hour ago, Ontarkie said:

This is exactly why I became a USC. I have kids, 2 were born here in Arkansas, if something ever happened to my husband and I wasn't a USC his family actually could take everything away from me. Seems some States have a few messed up laws on the books. My kids and I could lose everything if his family wanted to be nasty. BTW I wouldn't put it pass his brother and his wife to do it.  

Oh wow, I knew taxation was different, but never heard of states with law preventing non-USC from accessing their inheritance - that is crazy!

[NikLR 13,220]

2 hours ago, NYCruiser said:

This is one survey. I have seen others where Sweden and the US are #1. However, I can see your bias

Agreed. I have tri-citizenship too

US, UK and Kenyan

I have seen the USA as number one at 174  before but since Germany is 176 countries in 2017, currently they are number 1. 

It's not a survey.  It is a fact based on the number of countries a person can visit without a visa. 

Edited November 4, 2017 by NikLR

[little immigrant 800]

10 hours ago, NikLR said:

It's not like he would be giving up UK citizenship by one day becoming a US citizen.  Never having to worry about visas or the VWP and all that entails is a powerful attractant for people. 

As a Canadian citizen who doesn't even need to worry about the VWP, citizenship holds even less appeal to me. 

People who travel tend to like having US citizenship too but it looks like Germany is the newest most powerful passport.

 

The world's 25 most powerful passports

1. Germany, 176 countries can be visited without a visa

2. Sweden, 175

=3. Denmark, Finland, Italy, Spain, United States, 174

=8. Austria, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, United Kingdom, 173

=16. Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, 172

=19. Canada, Greece, Portugal, Switzerland, 171

=23. Australia, South Korea, 170

25. Iceland, 169

 

But in all honesty most countries tend to like you more without the American flag on your backpack.  

 

yes you can constantly renew every 10 years. i know people that have for 40 years from the UK that have no interest in being a US citizen. 

Dang I just gave up my German citizenship haha

 

I made a decision though.

 

I think first of all you should leave the decision to your fiance. If he wishes to naturalize I would support that. I don't know about the laws in Britain but I know for Germany I would have had to apply to keep my German citizenship. That's why I didn't bother with it. If he is able to keep his British citizenship when he takes the American citizenship that would be best. If he just keeps renewing the Green Card and you guys go to Britain and for some reason you guys decide to go back to the US, his Green Card is abandoned and you would have to start all over. If he has dual citizenship he won't have any issues coming back. If it hadn't been so complicated, I would have loved to have dual citizenship.

[mallafri76 1,012]

I’ll become a USC because it’ll allow my husband and I to move to Sweden for three years, so he can get Swedish citizenship. After that, we can pretty much move anywhere in the world. 😊

 

Also, as a USC, you’re allowed to vote and have a say in how your community, state and country is run. Plus you can get jury duty. I’ve always wanted to do that. 😃

 

But if you want to, you can keep extending your permanent resident card indefinitely. 

 

I don’t blame you for wanting to move back to England at some point, I lived there for six years and feel more at home in Britain than I do in my home country Sweden. 😊 The UK is a very beautiful and interesting country. So much history and the countryside is just breathtaking. 

Edited November 4, 2017 by mallafri76

[marknir 12]

I have been here on a green card since 2004. I applied for citizenship as I don't plan to move back to the UK but will keep my UK citizenship,. it just makes more sense to not have to deal with renewing my green card and for an extra $230 I can be a citizen with all the rights and privileges that accompany it!

[csk2b1 44]

Personally, I'm waiting on Texas to secede then I'll get a Texas passport to go along with my Scottish one....

 

Edited November 4, 2017 by csk2b1