Dual Citizenship
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Dual Citizenship
Hello - I'm sure this question has been asked before but I'll ask again! I am British and have been living in the US on a green card for 8 years. I have read in a number of places that it is okay to have dual citizenship but before I apply for my passport I just wanted to check with those of you out there who have been in my same position -
Can you have both a UK and US passport and does this allow you to travel freely between both countries with no restraints on how long you stay in either country?
Also, I have two daughters, age 3 and 6, both born in the US. Can I just go ahead and apply for their British passports or is there any other procedure needed prior to doing this? And then the question is the same as above - are they free to come and go between both countries and reside in either?
Thanks for your help!
Can you have both a UK and US passport and does this allow you to travel freely between both countries with no restraints on how long you stay in either country?
Also, I have two daughters, age 3 and 6, both born in the US. Can I just go ahead and apply for their British passports or is there any other procedure needed prior to doing this? And then the question is the same as above - are they free to come and go between both countries and reside in either?
Thanks for your help!
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...And then the question is the same as above - are they free to come and go between both countries and reside in either?
Don't forget you must file a US tax return every year, reporting worldwide income, no matter where in the world you live.
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Re: Dual Citizenship
USC's don't necessarily have to file a US tax return each year. Their worldwide income is *subject* to US income tax regardless of where they reside. However, whether they actually have to file a tax return or not depends on their financial situation.
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Re: Dual Citizenship
Hello - I'm sure this question has been asked before but I'll ask again! I am British and have been living in the US on a green card for 8 years. I have read in a number of places that it is okay to have dual citizenship but before I apply for my passport I just wanted to check with those of you out there who have been in my same position -
Can you have both a UK and US passport and does this allow you to travel freely between both countries with no restraints on how long you stay in either country?
Can you have both a UK and US passport and does this allow you to travel freely between both countries with no restraints on how long you stay in either country?
Also, I have two daughters, age 3 and 6, both born in the US. Can I just go ahead and apply for their British passports or is there any other procedure needed prior to doing this? And then the question is the same as above - are they free to come and go between both countries and reside in either?
Optionally, you can register their birth with the UK authorities - a process known as consular birth registration. This is not necessary but many posters here recommend it for UKC children born in the US. One of the issues it gets around is the suspicion that US birth certs issued more than 3 months after birth arouse in UK officials. This is because US birth records can be amended in cases of adoption - in which case the parents named on the US birth cert may not be the biological parents.
You can do consular birth registration without getting the certificate and then get a cheaper one from the GPO in the UK. However, the GPO certificate would only be available from the September in the year following the year of registration. So if you register in 2013, you could obtain a birth cert from the GPO in the UK from September 2014.
http://ukinusa.fco.gov.uk/en/help-fo...-registration/
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Re: Dual Citizenship
Thanks for your help and reassurance!
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Re: Dual Citizenship
I also assume that if you are living in the UK most of the time (e.g. > 183 days per year) then you won't have to pay any tax to the IRS under the dual taxation rules?
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