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Dual Citizenship is a very interesting situation that only arises every so often. It is also not possible everywhere. The basics of the situation are that a person can belong to two different countries at one time. They can decide that they do not want to pick between the two in order to have citizenship but rather want to declare themselves to be a part of both. This has to happen at a certain point, as people eventually have to decide upon their citizenship and cannot just go along forever without making some sort of a decision. A dual citizenship lawyer can help you to know exactly what your options are and what the benefits and disadvantages are that you will face in the future.
One way that this situation can come about, for example, is if a child is born in Canada to American parents who are visiting. They may be on vacation or they may have come across the border to go to a close hospital -- if they live close to the Michigan border, some Canadian hospitals are closer than their American counterparts. No matter the reason for their arrival, the child will have been born on Canadian soil and thus have a claim to Canadian citizenship. However, the parents then move back to America. Since the child has American parents and lives in that country, he or she has a claim also on American citizenship. To avoid having to choose one or the other, the child can decide to claim dual citizenship.
The main way that a dual citizenship lawyer can help is by showing what it will mean to be a citizen of both countries. He or she will show if you will have all of the benefits of being a citizen in both or if you will have benefits from neither. For example, the child mentioned above could get social security money from America and free health care from Canada -- or they could get nothing from either country if both governments claimed it was the responsibility of the other. This varies from country to country, and only a lawyer can really explain the laws where you are living.
A dual citizenship attorney will also be able to help you work through the system. There will be a lot of paperwork to fill out before you can become a dual citizen.
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