I have been thinking about this and researching about dual and triple citizenship but haven't been able to figure out the answer. Say a Polish mother and Czech father have a child in another European country, like perhaps Hungary, and then they all move to the US and become citizens there. Is the child then a citizen of the US and Hungary, even though they don't live in Hungary? And is there a way the child could even have triple citizenship say because the mother was Polish? Thank you in advance.
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If you are a US citizen, you can't have dual citizenship. As part of the naturalization process, you take an oath renouncing your citizenship of all other countries. The US only recognizes one kind of dual nationality; that is where a child is born to US parents while they are living outside the country. In that case, the US accepts the child has dual nationality. While many people claim to have dual nationality, in practice, legally, they don't.
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If you are a US citizen, you can have dual citizenship.
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First. The countries that the child wishes to have nationalities must first allow for dual nationalities. Second. If that is the case, the parents must have registered the birth abroad to the appropriate embassy. Third. In some countries, residence is not a requirement for citizenship. Parentage only. Different countries, have different rules. But generally, a child may have 3 nationalities at birth. The father. The mother. And the country the child was born in.
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Dual citizenship is allowed in the U.S., but probably not encouraged by the government. So, yes, the child would be a citizen of Hungary and the U.S. It is likely that the Polish government might grant citizenship to the child through the mother.
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That's a tricky situation there. I've wondered that myself. But I hope that this article helps you in what you're looking for. I think that the first guy who answered your question really knows what he's talking about. But I think that if you are a US citizen that you can't hold anymore citzenships other then American.
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Yeah to answer your question. Firstly one Dual citizenship is restricted under Czech law. Two Polish law does not recognize dual citizenship of its citizens.
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your example sounds like a good recipe for a sandwich
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it would all depends how long the parents lived in Hungary with the child? Hungary does not apply # jus soli # citizenship by birth in Hungary,with foreign parents, if they became US citizen? then the child would be included in the parent's citizenship,if (of course they included him) Czech does not allow dual citizenship,but there are always some exceptions, Poland does...so technically the child does hold US,could have Poland citzenship and maybe Czech?not Hungarian, the US does allow dual citizenhip, i am.
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You CAN have dual citizenship, as long as you have had it since birth, and the other country you are a citizen of does not object. It used to be that you couldn't have dual citizenship in the US, but that was dropped in 1980. The baby would be able to hold dual citizenship IF it was Naturalized along with its parents at a young age. When that is the case, the child is unable to take the oath, and therefore, still a dual citizen, and able to use it at will. The only time that wouldn't apply is if the childs second citizenship is of a country that doesn't allow dual citizenship. If that was the case, the child would have to go to the country's consulate in DC, and renounce citizenship to one country or the other. It used to be that Naturalized citizens couldn't hold dual citizenship, because part of the process is to renounce all other citizenships. Even that has changed a bit though, because based on the country, they may not recognize the act of renouncing citizenship as part of US Naturalization. That became a big enough problem that in 1990 the State Department actively chose to no longer go after Naturalized Citizens with dual citizenship. In my case, I held dual citizenship to USA and Iran from birth, because my father was a citizen of Iran. I however, was born in the US. When I was 16, my father was Naturalized. Even though my father became naturalized, Iran does not allow dual citizenship with the US [unless its through the father's citizenship, and not a result of being born in Iran, as mine was], so I was not allowed to keep my dual citizenship either.
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