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I need to look that up, but there is some article that says if you take another citizenship as US citizen you loose it. Bare with me or google

Travis, you cannot observe this from just one side of the law (or one countries law). Is is well known that as the DOS states isn't what's in the US law book, BUT that the US doesn't make a fuzz about it. i.e. as a US citizen you can not formally get another citizenship. Thus let...

The US doesn't permit dual citizenship - it just doesn't care. There are some EU countries that don't do that either. Some ho don't care ith SPECIFIC other countries they have explicit treaties with. Unless we have the original nationality, the discussion is mute

To add to the true essence of your question (even if the law isn't enforced) you lost your previous citizenship. Legally - if that implies technically you figure that one out.

The US doesn't care (by not enforcing the law) On the EU side: difficult to say w/o knowing the country. As a German w/o BBG you are out.

There is no general answer. Depends on where and how well your case goes, how they administer the oath and what else might be involved with your application. I was told my oath date at the interview. Keep in mind that during your english test you write "you" and not "U"

No, you will be jailed right after the Interview is done and only released at time of oath. What part of "of course" do you not understand? You can travel as much as you like for as long as you maintain your residency requirements.

Well, I would provide a copy of your father's death certificate to explain the longer absence. If you don't have a bean counter, s/he might consider this as sufficient explaination. This of course on top of what Bob wrote.

Hmm, I re-call that I got an SSN that had printed something about additional stuff needed to work in the US. But that was about 16 years ago. I did get that w/o any problem and no visa.

Not really, I would assume the janitor dusted the office and moved it from left to right :) In my case description and status never changed.

Sneakers (fairly new), dress pants, nice polo, but then I am in California and we prefer a bit more casual. Compared to others, I felt overdressed.

That's why I said you need to maintain your residency requirements and getting forth and back from Canada isn't really that complicated.

Shouldn't for as long as you maintain residency. I had a work visa for Mexico and didn't even mention it (there isn't a requirement) although I listed all the travels and that was good enough.

Jack, it's not my point - anything that changes the law retroactively (pardons as exceptions, but that's not a change of law) is totally out of whack. We strung up Saddam - sorry - yeah, guess what, no WMD's - real sorry, shouldn't invade, can we have the heartmachine? What? Doesn't work...

Leave the country because of stupidity - alternatively present them at the interview.

Ha, that's the seriously un-funny part about US laws: "retroactively" I am not sure where else in the world that is possible, but I for one think that's absolutely a concept for totally nuts people.

That's true. As I said, the OP leaves us with mainly speculation as to the real issue. I for one never served due to medical reasons.

Jack, in Switzerland you are obligated to do that - it's hadly employment by any means, even if you get some compensation. I wouldn't list Jury duty as employment either. It's civil duty.

BTW - what (as usual) ticks me off about this thread is that we are left with speculation. The OP doesn't mention when the service happend in regards to his immigration time line. i.e. As a German you always have to serve (unless you get out of it), thus this can't be an issue. If you...

No, isn't. My wife and I once traveled to Switzerland by car from Germany. The border patrol didn't gave a rats about me (travelling on german passport), but grilled my wife (US) for 15 min. Further, whenever I go to Mexico, I receive a very warm welcome as a German, as "Gringo" it's...