How many of you are dual nationals or more?

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Reply 20

34908seikj

Spoiler

Reply 21

nucdev

UK and Overseas Citizenship of India.

Despite the misleading name, it's not full citizenship of India :lol:

It does give me the right to go there as and when I want, live there for however long i want, work, start a business, own property etc.
The only things I can't do is own agricultural land or stand for election. Not that I'd want to do either anyway :laugh:

Reply 22

username2455183

Portuguese and have an OCI :smile:

Will be attempting to get British citizenship soon :tongue:

Reply 23

Banana00

Whoops - sorry! I didn't realise that you had to have a passport from somewhere to be considered a 'dual national', so I voted for 2 instead of 1. If this is for research (I'm guessing that it might be because of the deadline for the poll), please take my mistake into account.

UK and Mauritius

Original post by Banana00

You dont have to hold a passport, if youre registered with the government as a citizen thats fine =]

Original post by Snufkin

Is it really worth having though? Unless you plan on living there in the future (and why would you want to), then I can't see any value in having a US passport. US citizens who live abroad have to pay American income tax!

Original post by 34908seikj

I didn't know that. I guess the thought of having an American passport sounds cool. Nothings set in stone and obviously I still have to consider a lot of things [like American tax].

Tax aside American citizenship does have certain perks; its the most powerful passport isnt it?
Excellent consular assistance
if i recall they dont extradite their citizens?

Reply 27

Snufkin

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Original post by Napp

Tax aside American citizenship does have certain perks; its the most powerful passport isnt it?
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if i recall they dont extradite their citizens?

I wouldn't have thought that a US passport is particularly powerful. Swiss passports are supposed to be the most coveted, and German and Swedish passports give you the most visa-free access.

Reply 28

username1022139

United Kingdom and Argentina!

Reply 29

34908seikj

Original post by Napp

You dont have to hold a passport, if youre registered with the government as a citizen thats fine =]

Tax aside American citizenship does have certain perks; its the most powerful passport isnt it?
Excellent consular assistance
if i recall they dont extradite their citizens?

It's actually not, IIRC the UK is like 2nd or 3rd most powerful, while the US is pretty far down, like 11th.

Edit: See here, the US is the 5th most powerful passport, where as the UK is 2nd.

https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 30

Napp

Original post by Snufkin

I wouldn't have thought that a US passport is particularly powerful. Swiss passports are supposed to be the most coveted, and German and Swedish passports give you the most visa-free access.

Aye essentially any country thats In the west and either is or originally was european :L
Americas at 4 apparently

Reply 31

username2313507

Just Israeli but been in the UK long enough to get a tasty student loan

Reply 32

Collombia

My mother has a Nigerian and a United Kingdom passport. All of my other family members and myself only have a UK passport.

Reply 33

kara_97x

UK/Spain

But only have a Spanish passport

Uk/Netherlands

Ah, that wonderful thing known as an OCI. Beautiful.

Reply 36

Juichiro

Original post by 34908seikj

I didn't know that. I guess the thought of having an American passport sounds cool. Nothings set in stone and obviously I still have to consider a lot of things [like American tax].

What's the rationale behind that?

Reply 37

username738914

Original post by Juichiro

What's the rationale behind that?

American citizens have to pay US tax on their income (anything over ~$96k/year) even if they don't live in the US. Some countries have tax agreements though (like the UK) where you only pay whichever tax agreement works out as being more - i.e. usually the UK.

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