Passport - parents from 2 different countries

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 12:05

Is anyone in the situation where the husband/wife are from different countries, thus have different passports? I had heard that no matter what the baby will take fathers nationality, but am not sure about this?

In the end it wouldnt be a problem as our child could have dual citizenship, but i'd prefer our child to have US passport first.

Any help is appreciated.

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Latest post on 06 September 2012 - 01:06

All three of my children were born here from 2004-2011 and they have my passport not husbands as paper work was quicker. We will eventually get round to giving them H's passport. I have a lot of friends that are from the US who are married to people from other nationalities. If the mother was trying to pass on her US Citizenship she had to provide proof of residence for the last 5 years by providing college/high school transcripts and other various documents. My male US friends however didn't encounter the same document process when their wife/mother of the baby was not a US Citizen.

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Latest post on 04 September 2012 - 08:25

The proof of residency thing is for when one parent is not American. As far as I understand, you can have dual citizenship, but not with all countries, mostly because (I think) it's the other countries that don't want you to have 2. Apparently, there is some way of doing it so that you can keep 2 (I have to figure that out myself because I'm undergoing paperwork for mine). For our kids, they just have to decide by age 22 (last time I checked) if they want to also still keep their 2nd passport (requirement of that country, not USA). I think it has to do with military service or something like that.

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 22:02

my husband and i are both american, but our son was born here and we didnt have to have proof of us living in america when we went to the embassy, but we both had american passports, so maybe thats why... as far as america not offering dual citezenship, im not sure what the rule is when your parents are of 2 different nationalities, but i know my neice was born in germany so she was given dual citezenship but had to pick one or the other by the time she turns 18.

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kiwispiers15400

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 21:47

I thought the US didn't allow you to have dual citizenship?

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sobevan

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 21:43

All I can say is good luck with the American consulate. What a pain in the neck it is. I am American and my husband is not. You have to provide documentation/proof that you lived in America for at least 5 years in order to be able to get first the Consular Report of Birth Abroad, then once you have that, the passport. When I asked for what they use as proof, the helpful woman (who is no longer there, I think) goes, "I don't know." My blood is boiling thinking about how I wanted to smack her. Anyway, good things to use are college transcripts. I am not sure if tax returns will work, but I think they do (I never got a straight answer). I actually also got my high school transcript as well because it was easier than having my sister pull tax returns out of filing cabinets in storage. There's other stuff you need to show, but I can't remember now. Those were the most annoying things to get, as most of us don't carry official transcripts or tax returns on us at all times.

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 18:52

My DH and I are from two different nationalities as well - NZ and Lebanon. Our DD, at this stage, only has my country of citizenship - the NZ and therefore, the passport which of course her visa is in. And we had absolutely no problem in getting her the NZ nationality and the UAE resident visa. On the birth cert, it states both parents nationalities and religions. We haven't got round to getting her Lebanese nationality at this point but will do in the future. Hi SuzNZ - so since birth certificate says both your and your husband details, you went ahead and got Nz nationality, and there were no questions asked? That's great to know! Thanks! Anyone on here from America and husband from another country? If so, we're you able to get American passport first? Thanks :)

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 18:25

My sister-in-law gave birth in Dubai in 2011. She and her husband are of 2 different nationalities. Like mentioned previously, the baby's birth certificate lists only the parents nationalities. The baby now has the mom's nationality and passport. No one ever told them to get the dad's nationality for the baby.

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CitronKB

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 16:28

She was born June 2011. I was expecting her to automatically take DH's nationality on her birth cert to be honest and was quite surprised that it stated both of ours and not specified hers! ETA: And yes, she was born in the UAE. At Al Wasl Hospital. edited by suznz on 03/09/2012 interesting, we were told baby born in UAE will have to take father's nationality, our dd was born in March this year

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 15:21

It doesn't matter, you can apply for both as long as your countries allow dual citizenship. My children have both. You can just work out which one you can get faster, so you can put the resident visa in it.

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suznz

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 14:35

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 14:25

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suznz

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 13:36

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CitronKB

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Latest post on 03 September 2012 - 13:18

it depends on both of your countries rules reg dual nationality, some countries do not allow it, some do once baby is born in UAE it automaticly gets father's nationality on her birth certificate(our case as we are from two different countries) but we got both nationalities/passports for our baby-lots of paperwork involved!

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