Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At that time, Sweden didn't allow it either. But Sweden was eventually simply forced to. There were so many people like me living here. Me = "other citizenship" married to a Swedish citizen. So my children are automatically Swedish citizens (because their mother is and they were born here). I applied for visa for them so we could all visit my family in the US and the US Embassy said: "no way. They are American citizens and therefore they must enter the US on a US passport." So even if Sweden did not allow active dual citizenships, there was a whole chunk of the populations being born into dual citizenships. So around 2000 or 2001 (can't remember) Sweden decided to quite requiring new citizens to renouce their previous citizenship. I waited a year or so to make sure the whole thing wasn't a trick (I am paranoid by nature) and ended up applying. It made it so much easier since I was involved in so many EU research projects at the time. Daniel On Jan 12, 2008 11:32 AM, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> wrote: > Hi Jayanand, > > I am not Daniel, but I am in a similar situation; I have dual US and > Polish citizenship. The US generally permits this, so whether it is > possible or not depends on whether the other country does--for > example, Denmark does not (that is how I lost my Danish citizenship, > when I became a US citizen in 1987). > > Cheers, > Nathan > > > On 12-jan-2008, at 10:39, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > > Daniel, > > Would you have dual citizenship, or would you have to surrender > > your US > > citizenship? > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > On Jan 12, 2008 2:31 PM, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Yep, and Philippe has just summed up why I decided to apply for > >> Swedish citizenship. > >> > >> I wanted to be a citizen of the EU and for me, Belgium represents > >> what > >> I would like the EU to be. > >> > >> Daniel > >> > >> > >> On Jan 12, 2008 7:57 AM, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> > >> wrote: > >>> Philippe has just summed up some of the reasons why I think that of > >>> all the countries where I have lived, I consider Belgium to have the > >>> best overall quality of life (I have not yet lived in Spain long > >>> enough to include it in the comparison). > >>> > >>> Nathan > >>> > >>> > >>> On 12-jan-2008, at 2:54, Philippe Orlent wrote: > >>> > >>>> I ?m Belgian, and the essence of that is a kind of 'intuitive > >>>> western polyglotness': linguisticly we have Indogerman, but also > >>>> Southern European influences, both very often combined with a > >>>> classic education (intensive Latin and Greek). It's quite unique > >>>> really. So we might have ridiculous jurisdiction, a laugheable > >>>> government, an opportunistic nature, and whatever other city myth, > >>>> but in languages we do excell. And in cuisine ofcourse ;-) > >>>> Anyways. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Nathan Wajsman > >>> nathan@nathanfoto.com > >>> General photography: > >>> http://www.nathanfoto.com > >>> http://www.greatpix.eu > >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu > >>> Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > >>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > Nathan Wajsman > nathan@nathanfoto.com > General photography: > http://www.nathanfoto.com > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >