2007-11-02 02:54:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I have a Norwegian and American citizenship.
2007-11-02 03:43:34 · update #1
Citizenship by birth (INA § 301, 8 USC § 1401):
The US law on citizenship by birth incorporates two traditional legal principles:
# ius soli ("right of the soil"), under which citizenship results from being born in the US, and
# ius sanguinis ("right of the blood"), under which citizenship results from having an American parent or parents.
Many dual-citizenship situations result from the interaction of two countries' implementations of ius soli and/or ius sanguinis in their respective citizenship laws. For example, a child might acquire the citizenship of the country in which he was born (via ius soli), and also the citizenship of his parents' country (via ius sanguinis), and as a result start life as a dual citizen.
http://www.richw.org/dualcit/law.html
2007-11-02 04:25:30 · update #2
As a Immigration Officer and a dual citizen I can tell you that the military accepts non citizens so dual is no problem. Your really only going to have a problem with the dual part if you become a government official of another country. Example is the President of Latvia who was a dual U.S./Latvian citizen, but lost his U.S. upon being elected. People also go to an overseas U.S. embassy and renounce the U.S. citizenship, but that usually is ignored. In Puerto Rico some serious Independent movement persons did just that, but our instructions was to let them in as U.S. citizens. They did try passing off their home made Puerto Rico passports which were nice show piece back at the office after we seized them.
2007-11-02 03:10:25 · answer #1 · answered by Texan~to_the-Max 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When I went into the Marines, there was a girl in my platoon from Canada. Not dual citizenship,,, she was Canadian.
Then I met a man at one of my units who was from Australia. Same deal. He was Australian, not dual citizenship.
As long as you have the proper visas you can work for the US Military. If you have partial US citizenship, then it should be easier for you.
2007-11-02 03:02:42 · answer #2 · answered by Kathryn P 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The United States does not allow duel citizenship
2007-11-02 04:06:48 · answer #3 · answered by jvwatson4 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes I was in the Army with a guy who was dual British/US and another who was dual German/US. Not sure if it's harder to join though.
2007-11-02 02:58:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, with two exceptions: if you job requires a Clearance or you are an officer, you must give up the Non US citizenship.
2007-11-02 06:10:00 · answer #5 · answered by Mrsjvb 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Technically - you can. However you will not be allowed to remain in longer than six years and you will be very limited in the career fields open to you.
2007-11-02 05:22:59 · answer #6 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. I was in the military with people that didnt even have citizenship period...
2007-11-02 04:36:08 · answer #7 · answered by Mommy to 1+triplets 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but technically if you vote in the non-U.S. country, you are supposed to lose your U.S. citizenship. (Though that is dependent on the U.S. discovering you have done so.)
2007-11-02 02:57:43 · answer #8 · answered by Ben 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO -- when u enter the US Military u take an oath to the US Constitution and u swear ur alegance to it and to the people of the United States of America
2007-11-02 02:59:54 · answer #9 · answered by de viking 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Call INS and ask. It isn't the army's place to make that decision.
2007-11-02 03:03:54 · answer #10 · answered by tom l 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋