When becoming a naturalized citizen, does the immigrant give up citizenship to his homeland?
Here you go, Kit, with a real answer that most will not be able to swallow since it might cause them to remove their rose colored glasses. When immigrants become U.S. citizens, they must participate in a ceremony during which they promise to “absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which [you] have heretofore been a subject or citizen.” Although the renouncing and abjuring must take place, this doesn’t necessarily mean that an immigrant cannot maintain dual citizenship. The U.S. laws regarding dual citizenship are decidedly ambiguous, which makes it a topic of debate. Dual citizenship means that you are a citizen of two countries simultaneously, but it does not mean that you can’t uphold the vows of loyalty that you take when becoming a U.S. citizen. Whether or not you can make dual citizenship work depends largely upon the laws of the country from which you immigrated. Si
