ESTA - other citizenships
Jan 16th 2016, 1:25 am
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Re: ESTA - other citizenships
If I thought I was a citizen of a country I think I might want to find out.
Jan 16th 2016, 2:50 am
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Re: ESTA - other citizenships
I disagree. There's nothing in the original post to suggest the question is anything but hypothetical.
Jan 16th 2016, 11:57 pm
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Re: ESTA - other citizenships
If you are a British citizen who happens to unwittingly also hold Irish citizenship through, say, a Belfast-born parent it's not going to a problem since both countries are in the VWP list.
Unless you were potentially a citizen of a 'red flag' country (e.g. Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea) I can't imagine it's going to be an issue and I would suggest you would know if you were a citizen of those countries or at least you would be aware of your ancestry and therefore the possibility.
It would also depend on how much weight the State Department gives to certain countries' nationality law. For instance South Korea is on the VWP list but as North Korea claims all members of the Korean diaspora as its citizens technically you could put that down as your other citizenship. However as this would affect all ethnic Koreans, including the 1.7 million currently residing in the US, it's unlikely this would be considered credible.
Unless you were potentially a citizen of a 'red flag' country (e.g. Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea) I can't imagine it's going to be an issue and I would suggest you would know if you were a citizen of those countries or at least you would be aware of your ancestry and therefore the possibility.
It would also depend on how much weight the State Department gives to certain countries' nationality law. For instance South Korea is on the VWP list but as North Korea claims all members of the Korean diaspora as its citizens technically you could put that down as your other citizenship. However as this would affect all ethnic Koreans, including the 1.7 million currently residing in the US, it's unlikely this would be considered credible.
