Everything you need to know about dual citizenship
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Key Points:
- Dual citizenship is increasingly popular, offering benefits like easier travel, work opportunities, and emotional ties to ancestral homelands, but some countries are tightening citizenship rules and restrictions in response to political and economic concerns.
- The main routes to acquiring dual citizenship are descent, naturalization, and investment, with investment programs ("golden passports") facing crackdowns in Europe, while Caribbean nations continue to offer citizenship for economic contributions.
- The U.S. has seen growing interest in dual citizenship, especially among Americans dissatisfied with domestic politics or seeking greater global mobility, though a proposed "Exclusive Citizenship Act" aiming to ban dual citizenship is widely considered unconstitutional and unlikely to pass.
- Downsides of dual citizenship include potential tax obligations in multiple countries, military service complications,
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