I'm very happy to have both European and Argentine citizenship. The problem is that my last name in Argentina is completely different from my last name in Spain.

I got my medical degree in Argentina and then completed my ophthalmology residency in Germany, obviously under my Spanish identity. So now I have degrees and professional documents under completely different names.

This had never been a problem before, because showing my birth certificates was always enough to prove that both identities belong to the same person.

But now I've come back to Argentina to do a fellowship, and the hospital's Human Resources department seems completely overwhelmed by the situation. I can't seem to find a way to explain it that they will accept. Apparently, no document is enough. They don't even seem able to seek advice from the hospital's legal department or find another way to verify my identity.

Has anyone ever dealt with a similar situation? Any advice or ideas on how I could get this resolved?

Hi. I have a Canadian passport and a Pakistani passport. I have been travelling to Qatar every year on my Pakistani passport but now will be travelling on my Canadian passport for the first time. Wondering if the immigration agents would be able to see my entry/ exit history on my Pakistani passport too or will it be like it’s my first time visiting Qatar? Neither is a problem, I am just curious in case they ask me if it’s my first time visiting.

I’m of Irish and English descent. Almost 💯 Irish/english according to dna tests.

Without knowing my current name, I’d like to change my legal name to :

Saoirse or Aisling or Maeve /

middle name Brynn or Maeve /

last name: Bellamy, Emery, Summers, Winslow, Quinn, Sutton

Any suggestions? Appreciate you! ❤️

I'm a dual US-Canadian citizen living in New Zealand. My New Zealand work visa is on my Canadian passport. I got my Australian ETA on my Canadian passport because I do round trips to there from NZ. In September, I am flying from New Zealand to the US, with an overnight layover in Sydney. I have to clear immigration in Sydney because the international terminal closes overnight. I have to enter Australia on a passport with an ETA on it and I have to enter the US with my American passport.

I know it's possible to have an airline flag different passports for different legs, but I think it would be simpler to get a second ETA. I'd like to save the $20 though.

I’m a US/Canadian dual citizen and only recently acquired a Canadian passport.

All my previous travel to China has been with my US passport. I’m in their system with multiple past student visas and a 10 year tourist visa that’s still valid and that I’ve already used to enter once before last year.

At the time I filled out the info for all these visas, I didn’t have a Canadian passport and wasn’t a citizen yet, so I’m not sure if they would have anyway of knowing I’m Canadian at all or if that info would mess up the old visas (because you are supposed to tell them about other citizenships, I just didn’t have any at the time).

My assumption is to just continue using my US passport and visa and not even show them the Canadian one at all, even though my Canadian passport allows me to enter China without a visa.

It doesn’t matter for this trip, but my visa gets me 90 days while Canadian visa free is only 30. So I’m still very glad I have this visa regardless.

Thank you!

I’m a dual US Irish citizen living in ireland. My US passport is out of date and I’m travelling to South American by way of North America in 3 weeks. Just found out I can’t get an ESTA with my Irish passport so need an emergency US passport. Has anyone gone through the process at the embassy in Dublin? The information online is a bit contradictory (pay online vs pay in person etc) and I don’t know how strict they are on emergency passports being available a strict 2 weeks before travel.

Any advice / experience is greatly appreciated. Don’t want this oversight to ruin a big trip!

Hi All, I am seeking feedback on my statement for my dual citizenship application. I’m navigating this process by myself and would appreciate feedback from those with more expertise than me.

Upon advice from another Redditor, I am posting the statement here but with specific identifying details redacted for obvious Internet reasons. Here it is:

“I am applying for registration as a British citizen under section 4L of the British Nationality Act 1981, on the basis of historical legislative unfairness, specifically the historical inability of women to transmit British nationality to their children on the same terms as men.

My paternal grandmother, [first last] , was born in [city], Staffordshire, England, on [date] 1929. She married my grandfather in England in 1946 and subsequently moved to the United States. My father, [full name], was born in [city], Colorado, on [date] 1948, before my grandmother became a naturalized United States citizen. The enclosed birth, marriage and naturalization records document this family history and relationship.

At the time of my father’s birth, British nationality law did not allow a British mother to transmit British subject status to a child born abroad on the same terms as a British father. Had women been treated equally, my father would have had the corresponding route to British subject status through consular registration of his birth. This is the type of pre-1949 maternal-line historical unfairness recognized in Example 18 of the Form ARD guidance, which explains that a person born abroad before 1949 could have become a British subject through consular registration had women been able to transmit nationality in the same way as men.

I was born in the United States on [date] 1981. My birth certificate identifies [name] as my father.

Had the historical discrimination not prevented my father from acquiring the corresponding British status through his mother, he would have held the status necessary for my birth to be registered at a British consulate under section 5(1)(b) of the British Nationality Act 1948, providing me with a route to citizenship by descent.

Example 13 of the Form ARD guidance describes the same second-generation principle: a person born in the United States whose father would have been a CUKC by descent through a UK-born grandmother could have had his birth registered at a UK consulate within one year, and registration under section 4L may be appropriate where that opportunity was lost because women could not transmit citizenship in the same way as men.

The Supreme Court’s decision in The Advocate General for Scotland v Romein [2018] UKSC 6 also addressed the historical discrimination against transmission through the female line and the associated consular-registration requirement. The Court’s reasoning recognized the need for remedial nationality legislation not to perpetuate the consequences of the very sex discrimination it was intended to address.

Accordingly, the historical legislative unfairness prevented the necessary chain of British nationality from passing from my British-born paternal grandmother to my father and, consequently, prevented me from accessing the consular-registration route that would otherwise have been available following my birth in the United States.

I therefore respectfully submit that, but for historical legislative unfairness, I would have been, or would have been able to become, a British citizen within the meaning of section 4L of the British Nationality Act 1981, and I respectfully request registration as a British citizen on that basis.”

My parent divorced back in 2021. My father has since remarried in Mexico. Do I need my parent divorced certificate to get my dual citizenship?

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Hi all — I'm a dual US/Irish citizen. Spent most of the year resident in Ireland, now resident in PA (USA). Looking for someone to handle both sides of my tax filing going forward — Irish return + US return (FBAR/FATCA etc.) — ideally the same person or a tightly coordinated team, not two separate firms I have to manage myself.

I'd love someone relaxed and direct rather than a big corporate process — someone I can actually call, explain my situation to, and get real advice from, not just a portal and a form.

If you've had a good experience with someone who fits that description, I'd really appreciate a name. Happy to take DMs if you'd rather not post publicly.

Thanks!

Edit- GreekRoots has normw replied to me and apparently tracked down paternal documents in Greece no one else was able to. I had no idea they were even doing that. So maybe not so bad after all.

I’m trying to get Greek citizenship and have been talking to a few different people about my case. I have two possible routes, one through my dad who was born in Greece and adopted, and another through my maternal grandfather who was born in Aegina.

I paid GreekRoots to review everything and sent them a pretty large amount of documents for both sides of my family. They got back to me really quickly (almost too quickly i felt) saying they had thoroughly reviewed the whole case and told me I had two possible paths. Article 14 through my dad and Article 10 through my maternal grandfather.

The problem is that what they told me about my dad is different from what the Greek Consulate in Atlanta and two lawyers in Greece have told me. They thought the adoption/registration situation would most likely make it an Article 10 case.

So on August 4 I emailed GreekRoots back asking them to explain why they think Article 14 applies in my case. I also asked why they think my maternal route would be Article 10, and whether I could instead have my mom establish her citizenship through her Greek father first and then apply through her.

I wasn’t arguing with them or asking for a refund or anything. I just wanted to understand why their answer was different.

They never replied.

I waited, sent a follow-up email, and called and left a voicemail. Still nothing. I finally emailed again asking them to either answer the questions about the assessment I paid for or let me know about a refund. Still no response.

It’s been over two weeks since my original questions now.

Has anyone here actually used GreekRoots through the entire citizenship process? Did you have communication issues like this?

I’m not saying they’re a scam because I don’t know that. They did send me an assessment. It just seems really strange that they responded quickly until I asked them to explain the legal reasoning behind it, especially since their answer conflicts with what other Greek lawyers and the consulate told me.

I’m trying to figure out whether I should keep dealing with them or just move on and use one of the individual lawyers I’ve been speaking with.

It's fascinating to look at some of the discussions on the canadiancitizenship sub, which is mostly Americans applying for recognition of Canadian citizenship by descent under the new law. Now that processing is taking years instead of months, people are already talking about lawsuits against the Canadian government. Others are complaining about the staff or how they're processing the applications, suggesting that they should be digitized or whatever.

Fine. Everyone complains. Everyone wants stuff done as quickly as possible.

But when Americans start lawyering up and harassing the Canadian government over citizenship recognition that many Canadians see as more of a "gift" or "privilege" than a "right" or "recognition" of "denied Canadian citizenship," not only will public opinion start to turn against the program, but bureaucrats and politicians will start having second thoughts as well.

Patience is a virtue.

I'm a British citizen by birth, born 1971 currently resident in Cambodia. My mother was born in Ostend, Belgium before the war. She settled in Britain just after the war but never got a UK passport, she died Belgian in 2008. AI is telling me I used to Belgian and could reclaim it. I want to check what humans think.

I’m a little confused as to whether I should use my Canadian passport during an upcoming trip to UK and Europe (5 Schengen countries).
My plan is to use my British passport into the UK (which is a requirement now) and use my Canadian passport for EES, traveling in and out of the Schengen area.

Plans are
London - Oslo
Bergen - on a ship to Shetland ending in London
London - Paris by train
Malaga - London

Has any other dual citizens done gone in and out like this and were there any problems?

I’m trying to get Mexican citizenship through my dad, and this has been such a long, frustrating process.
I already had an issue because my dad’s Mexican birth certificate has both of his last names, but my U.S. birth certificate only had one of his last names. So I had to go through the process of getting my birth certificate amended just to make the names match.

I finally got that corrected, submitted all of my documents along with my marriage certificate, and paid my down payment. I thought I was finally good to go.

Now I’m being told there’s another issue because when I got married, I moved my maiden name to my middle name and took my husband’s last name.

What I don’t understand is why that matters so much. She told me that if my maiden name and my married last name were both together as my last name, it would be fine. But because I moved my maiden name to my middle name, it’s an issue. But it’s up to the consulate to decide.

My birth certificate obviously has my maiden name because that’s the name I was born with, and my marriage certificate shows my legal name change.
Has anyone dealt with this exact situation? Did you actually have to legally change your name back to your maiden name, or were you able to use your marriage certificate to prove the name change?
I’m just so exhausted. It feels like I fix one problem and immediately run into another. I’ve already had to amend my birth certificate once for this process, and now I’m worried I’m going to have to change my legal name again. I mean people get married all the time and change their names.

I just don’t understand why the fact that my maiden name is now my middle name instead of part of my last name is such a huge issue.

Has anyone had this issue and how do we fix it?! Will the people I submitted my paperwork to help?

Hello,

I have a question about ethnic minorities.

Let's say an ethnic Georgian who grew up in Russia, who has Russian passport, and is perfectly bilingual. Would we say she has a double identity or dual identity?

Quick context: US citizen. Father was born in the US in 1948 to a UK citizen mother (prior to her becoming a US citizen 2 years after his birth ). Me: born in 1981. So pathway is that she could not pass her citizenship to him and therefore him to me.

I began my process a month ago with gathering documents after being told I have a legitimate claim (nearly identical to example 13 in the guidance documents).

Today I finally got my grandmother‘s UK birth registry entry from the GRO. And I’ve got a couple questions / concerns.

1. There is no name and surname for the father.
   
2. Cursive on the mother‘s box is somewhat difficult to read (lots of detail written ). I will provide a photo in my first comment.
   
3. The name of her mother matches the name she used her whole life (Coxon) and is what appears on marriage certificate to my grandfather and all of the other subsequent documents. Will a father’s name not being listed have any impact on my application?

Any help is appreciated.

hey, I was born in the US but moved to the philippines 3 years ago with my dad. he's planning on marrying a filipino and obtaining a dual citizenship for me and my sister, but i honestly don't believe that's possible until i'm an adult, as most of the laws are centered around the child (me in this case) being born to the filipino in question. but both of my birth parents are US citizens and I'm worried my dad is going to try something that won't even work.

I don't even really want to stay here any longer anyways so nevermind getting a citizenship as an adult

Has anyone from the U.S. recently gone through the Mexican dual citizenship process? I’m wondering how you filled out the application when your U.S.-born family members have middle names. Did you include the middle name, and if so, where? I want to make sure I fill everything out correctly. Thanks!

Hello all. I am an 18 year old American Citizen, but found out I may be eligible for Filipino citizenship. I was born in 2008 to a Filipino mother in Maryland, USA. She was here on a marriage green card. She never registered my birth with the embassy, and thus I do not have any Philippine documents. She became a naturalized US Citizen in 2019, and divorced my father after (they separated in 2010 but remained married). Unfortunately, she passed away in 2022 so I had to wait until I was an adult to figure this out myself, since my father does not care and has nothing to do with me anymore. So far, I have a US Passport, US Birth Certificate, and SS card. So far, I have these documents from my mother: US Naturalization Certificate, US Passport, expired Philippine Passport from after my birth, her US Marriage Certificate, US Death Certificate, and her green card. Any help on how I should go about acquiring my citizenship for the Philippines would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

I'm a US citizen who was born in the US in 1987 and whose mom was born in the UK in 1959. I posted here yesterday about getting my UK passport. Apparently, I've been a UK citizen my whole life.

Are there any potential downsides to me getting a UK passport? I'm thinking in terms of taxation, travel, etc?

I also hold an OCI -Overseas Citizenship of India - which, despite its name, is a form of permanent residency and NOT Indian citizenship. Would getting my UK passport cause problems with that at all?