Dual-Citizen. Help? Hinder?
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:06 pm
Does being a dual-citizen with a non-URM country help the chances of admission? Weaken? Or do nothing at all?
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To clear it up I really didn't think it would matter (im already sending a deposit out for school), it was just more of something that I was wondering.Aqualibrium wrote:LOL why would you think it would matter at all?
It's not going to make any difference at all. Except, perhaps, as material for an interesting PS or DS.gaud wrote:Does being a dual-citizen with a non-URM country help the chances of admission? Weaken? Or do nothing at all?
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gaud wrote:Does being a dual-citizen with a non-URM country help the chances of admission? Weaken? Or do nothing at all?
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Emeth! wrote:gaud wrote:Does being a dual-citizen with a non-URM country help the chances of admission? Weaken? Or do nothing at all?
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depends on which country it is.
If you get US citizenship at birth, or acquire it before a certain age, you can legally be a dual citizen - depending on how you acquire the other citizenship (it gets complicated). If you acquire US citizenship as an adult, you are supposed to renounce all other citizenships as part of the process - though apparently the government hasn't prosecuted such cases since the '70s. I'm guessing the OP was a US citizen at birth and acquired Irish citizenship through the grandparent rule.HOPEFORCHANGE wrote:You can mention that you were born in Ireland or whatever, but really, you don't have dual citizenship in America. You might be considered to have dual citizenship in Ireland, but in America, you renounce all other citizenships when you become a citizen. I have "dual citizenship" with England and in England, I am always a citzen - but I would find it unwise to go around telling legal professionals and immigration officers that I have "dual citizenship." Anyway, just phrase it differently. Ad comms knew from my place of birth and my PS that I was born in England and am half Portuguese and English. It helped I guess. I got in everywhere I applied...
You can have dual citizenship if you were born in the US, but are also a citizen elsewhere (at least this is possible if you're a citizen of your parents' country of origin).HOPEFORCHANGE wrote:You can mention that you were born in Ireland or whatever, but really, you don't have dual citizenship in America. You might be considered to have dual citizenship in Ireland, but in America, you renounce all other citizenships when you become a citizen. I have "dual citizenship" with England and in England, I am always a citzen - but I would find it unwise to go around telling legal professionals and immigration officers that I have "dual citizenship." Anyway, just phrase it differently. Ad comms knew from my place of birth and my PS that I was born in England and am half Portuguese and English. It helped I guess. I got in everywhere I applied...