acquiring 3rd country citizenship/passport during N-400 process?

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TwoScoops

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I'm current a citizen of country #1. (my home country, obviously)

My N-400 application was filed last year and I'm currently waiting
like everyone else. :) (to become citizen of the USA, country #2)

However, I am also eligible to automatically acquire the citizenship
and passport of country #3. I do not have to move to country #3
at all... The only catch is that country #3 does NOT recognize dual
citizenship. This means that I will lose country #3 citizenship
immediately upon becoming a US citizen. So my citizehship in
country #3 will be very short-lived.(months, perhaps) I mainly just
want to do it for sentimental reasons....

My question is, will obtaining country #3's citizenship/passport
affect my N-400 application to becoming a US citizen?
 
Someone needs to confirm this, but I doubt you can have another citizenship past accepting US citizenship. I read it here somewhere.

Whilst the US may not care about prior citizenships, they care about the ones you take later. That's what I took away from that other post. Might have been on another forum too.

Been reading about this because of my wife who is US citizen.
 
My point would be how can you get citizenship of country #3 if you already have citizenship of country #1 and therefore it would already be a violation of the dual citizenship law of country #1. Now, you are not trying to get two scoops, now you're trying to get three ;)

This is a pretty valuable resource in dual citizenship questions:
http://www.richw.org/dualcit/

I haven't reread things, my take is that things like honorary oaths to take another citizenship and automatic citizenships should not have an adverse effect in your U.S. citizenship (I mean once you have U.S. citizenship). Taking up another citizenship before naturalizing is something I have no idea how it could affect. Again, if it is an automatic thing it might not affect. I don't recall if the N-400 asks for how many nationalities you have, in that case you would need to update the IO during the interview and then perhaps find yourself in some trouble.
 
Huracan said:
My point would be how can you get citizenship of country #3 if you already have citizenship of country #1 and therefore it would already be a violation of the dual citizenship law of country #1.
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I forgot to add that my citizenship in country #1 will be lost as soon
as I obtain citizehship in country #3. Country #3 and country #1
will both demand that I reliquish country #1 citizenship, as soon as
I aqcuire citizenship in country #3.

Strangely, country #1 does not make such demands if I become a
US citizen. In fact, if I proceed with this and lose country #1
citizenship, I can re-apply and get it back as soon as I become
a US citizen.

Like I stated, I'm only thinking about this, knowing full well that my
country #3 citizenship will be very, very short-lived.... but I'm
only doing this if it does not affect my US N-400 proces.
 
I would suggest that you drop the idea of country #3 citizenship. If it is a short-lived one, and only for sentimental reasons, I would not recommend it at all. Why complicate the issue?
 
Have you been to the interview yet? Do you really want to be answering questions about your new #3 citizenship at the interview?

Interviewer: "Has your nationality changed since you filed the application, so I can update part 3 section E?"

TwoScoops: "Yes. I am now a citizen of XYZ."

Interviewer: "Why are you seeking another citizenship at a time like this? And do you realize you may lose that citizenship soon if your US citizenship is approved?"

TwoScoops: "For sentimental reasons."

Interviewer: "SENTIMENTAL REASONS!?? I see you don't take the concept of citizenship seriously. If you have been seeking another citizenship during this process, I cannot trust your allegiance to the United States. DENIED."
 
TwoScoops said:
I'm current a citizen of country #1. (my home country, obviously)

My N-400 application was filed last year and I'm currently waiting
like everyone else. :) (to become citizen of the USA, country #2)

However, I am also eligible to automatically acquire the citizenship
and passport of country #3. I do not have to move to country #3
at all... The only catch is that country #3 does NOT recognize dual
citizenship. This means that I will lose country #3 citizenship
immediately upon becoming a US citizen. So my citizehship in
country #3 will be very short-lived.(months, perhaps) I mainly just
want to do it for sentimental reasons....

My question is, will obtaining country #3's citizenship/passport
affect my N-400 application to becoming a US citizen?
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WOW, I have never encountered anyone who collects Citizenships for sentimental reasons. You must really have not much to do, lol :D
 
Jojo72 said:
WOW, I have never encountered anyone who collects Citizenships for sentimental reasons. You must really have not much to do, lol :D
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To be honest, it's really not my fault... it's the politicians and the military
for starting the bloody war in the first place... (and created this whole
mess) :)
 
Well your country 1 and country 3 riddle is intriguing! Care to enlighten us a bit? Especially getting automatic citizenship in one and loosing in another - Is it Serbia - Kosovo - they are the first ones that come to my mind right now:)

TwoScoops said:
To be honest, it's really not my fault... it's the politicians and the military
for starting the bloody war in the first place... (and created this whole
mess) :)
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You mind naming #1 and #2 so things are clearer? Nothing personal, but there are several people on this forum who hide their country of birth/citizenship and I just don't get why :)

TwoScoops said:
To be honest, it's really not my fault... it's the politicians and the military
for starting the bloody war in the first place... (and created this whole
mess) :)
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oh well... it's a moo point now...(moo, as in talking to a cow, which is pointless) :)

the passport application has a line that basically says " are you currently in the process of acquiring the citizenship of any other country... whether the application has been approved or not" (like I said, they absolutely do not tolerate dual citizenship...)

unless I lie, I cannot answer "no" to that question....
 
In regards your other thread - how will you run for office in country #1 if country #3 requires that you renounce your citizenship in country #1?

And if countries #1 and #3 are at war as you suggest, how will your potential electorate in country #1 react to your sentimental attachment to country #3?

:confused:
 
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