Surrender Passport

[sarath48]

My citizenship interview around the corner. I want to find out if I have to surrender my passport at the interview as my intention is to have dual citizenship. Will they not approve if I say I do not want to give up nationality. Or how do I go about it.

Thanks in advance.

 

[eltoro]

They will ask you for your passport to verify your identity but you'll get it back. During oath you will renounce allegiance to your former state but for most countries such a declaration is not enough to lose nationality.

Currently, US does not care if you hold other nationalities. Whether you lose your old nationality depends entirely on laws of your old country. Some countries, i.e. India and China make you lose your old citizenship. Most of other countries do not.

 

[Bobsmyth]

My citizenship interview around the corner. I want to find out if I have to surrender my passport at the interview as my intention is to have dual citizenship. Will they not approve if I say I do not want to give up nationality. Or how do I go about it.

Thanks in advance.

No, you don't surrender your passport at interview. They can't take away your foreign passport or citizenship. If the IO asks you whether you are willing to renounce your other citizenship, just answer yes..it's part of question whether you are willing to take the oath of allegiance, but has no impact on your foreign citizenship status.

 

[rick92]

I concur.... no need for USCIS to take your passport

No, you don't surrender your passport at interview. They can't take away your foreign passport or citizenship. If the IO asks you whether you are willing to renounce your other citizenship, just answer yes..it's part of question whether you are willing to take the oath of allegiance, but has no impact on your foreign citizenship status.

 

[dms1]

I concur.... no need for USCIS to take your passport

Not only no need, but they have no right to either. A passport belongs to the country issuing it, not to the person whose name it is in, so the holder can't give it away and no one but the issuing country can take it. The same goes for altering or defacing it in any way.