I can go to CUBA!!!
As of September 30 (but I just got the certificate today), I am IRISH. I have dual citizenship. I can get a passport, vote, and properly bitch about this country because I BELONG here :-).
It’s amazing. You never think about getting citizenship in another country, at least I didn’t. It’s really a wild feeling.
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Congratulations!
Since November 2 I bet lots of Americans have been thinking about citizenship in another country.
Comment by Molly — November 30, 2004 @ 09:42 GMT
hey, watch out — threatening to go to Cuba is a *big* deal to the DHS
I didn’t realise you could keep your US citizenship btw — I think I heard somewhere that US citizens weren’t permitted to do that. Is that only for US citizens who are resident in the US, as opposed to US citizens resident elsewhere? or is it an order thing, where if you were a US citizen first you can gain an addition citizenship? all very confusing…
Comment by Justin — November 30, 2004 @ 21:58 GMT
Justin: See Rich Wales’s Dual Citizenship FAQ. In short, US citizenship by birth is protected by the 14th Amendment, and can only be lost by a formal renunciation to US consular officials or other actions “with the intention of relinquishing U.S. nationality”. I recently renewed my US passport (to get one before the RFID ones start being issued), and just had to put a short explanatory note in about my acquisition of Irish citizenship.
As for Cuba, though, the OFAC laws apply to permanent residents and US citizens even if they travel on another passport….
Comment by Christopher Davis — December 1, 2004 @ 13:29 GMT
I live in El Paso and want to travel to Cuba. Can someone help me with the best way to fly from here and what the current laws are concerning getting dual citizenship?
Thank you … Bill
Comment by bill vitt — November 24, 2007 @ 22:24 GMT
It is illegal for a US citizen to travel to Cuba without a license from the US government. It does not matter if you have dual citizenship. The US government doesn’t care if you are a citizen of another country, too. They only care that you are a US citizen and, as such, would be seriously violating the law for traveling to Cuba without permission. This law is not there to control us or to tell us what we can or cannot do. It is so that Cuba does not get US dollars. It is to punish Cuba financially for being an oppressive communist dictatorship. The US government officials don’t want our political enemies to prosper. US officials want this oppressive regime to suffer. If a US citizen doesn’t play by these rules, regardless of additional citizenships one may hold, the US citizen can be sent to jail and fined $10,000.
Comment by Kevin — January 7, 2008 @ 00:02 GMT