Multiple citizenship/ Dual Nationality - would you be for it?

[Crossbow]

Having several nationalities is like doing the card-trick.

[Sahson]

This is incorrect.

Foreign nationals can have dual citizenship if they are of exceptional calibre. I have learned of university lecturers often holding Austrian citizenship in conjunction with citizenship from another country.

More information.

Try doing it the other way round. My uncle is Austrian, he said he would have to renounce his Austrian passport for an American one.

[Osweo]

Try doing it the other way round. My uncle is Austrian, he said he would have to renounce his Austrian passport for an American one.

How will the Austrian government even find out about it though? Is it then a crime to take foreign citizenship? How on Earth would they go about taking Austrian citizenship from him in this scenario? Is it automatically effective? Weird!

I personally have a certain little arrangement with that rebel state occupying most of the island nextdoor. You know, just in case.

[Beorn]

I see being European racially as more important than national loyalty. I wouldn't mind if all the West was merged into a racially based empire to be honest and I'd support whoever could bring that to be.

Sometimes you WN Yanks say the most funniest things.

[safinator]

A remote theoretical situation.

If there is a conflict between the two countries where a person claims citizenship, which do they support? Either will call him a traitor for choosing to support the other.

"No man can serve two masters."

[LouisFerdinand]

Christopher O'Neill is an American-British financier. He holds dual American and British citizenship. He married Princess Madeleine, the daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Christopher declined to hold Swedish citizenship.

[Wanderer]

Idealists... Reality will always be more complex than your principles. People have divided loyalties. They even have divided personalities sometimes!

WORK AROUND reality, don't try to deny it.

Very true. Divided loyalties do exist. It's human nature. Divided loyalties are simply a reality, whether one's worldview permits such a thing or not.

At the same time, I also get the sense that there's a rising tide people with NO loyalty to anything, which is deeply problematic. At least one with a divided loyalty has some actual sense of loyalty.

Whether a divided loyalty is problematic depends on the circumstances. If a situation arises where the two loyalties are in conflict, then it is indeed a problem.

[Wanderer]

Personally, I can't say I would never acquire another citizenship, although I have no immediate plans to do so. Theoretically, it could be in my personal interests to do so. It could enable me to live abroad, or gain other perks. But I love America most of all.

[Finnish Swede]

I have dual nationality (Sweden by dad and Finland by my mom). It's not any kind of game breaker for me; more like nice mental thing (showing my roots).

I do't go outside of Europe as the question will come even more difficult by then.
But what comes to nationality or dual nationality here in Europe...unfortunately the laws are not similar in every European countries.´Some European countries laws simply do not recognize the case that person has another/dual nationality. They keep him/her just a similar person as all their citizens.

So the first step should be to deny that option from those kind of people totally (putting them to choose: apply a new citizenship and same time given up from the old one or not to apply the new at all). Just because those people might cause very troublesome law cases if for example that kind of family will deforce one day, or even worse...to whom those people are expected to be loyalty (100%) in crises or to whom behalf to spy/work etc.? Sorry as I do not go any deeper on that matter.
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[KMack]

Personally, I can't say I would never acquire another citizenship, although I have no immediate plans to do so. Theoretically, it could be in my personal interests to do so. It could enable me to live abroad, or gain other perks. But I love America most of all.

You can live abroad and have legally residency there while maintaining USA citizenship and being granted another from the other country. Lots of people do it.