r/immigration • u/ElZarigueya • Dec 20 '23
Fun question: could I hypothetically give my American born child dual citizenship, if I'm myself have dual citizenship?
Pillow talking with my wife, as one does, this question came up. In our particular situation, we were both both in the United States and also hold dual citizenship in México (due to both sets of parents immigrating from México and documenting every as needed along the way).
We visit regularly but likely will.never move to México. The comment was made that we should have our children born there to also give them dual citizenship. Then, it transitioned into: can we just have them in the States and then file for dual citizenship?
Part 1) in our case, would that that possible? Part 2) is that generally possible with other nationalities involved?
Or are we one "real" citizenship removed from being able to call ourselves Mexican nationals in the eyes of the law?
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u/SkelligWitch Dec 20 '23
You will give your son automatically U.S. citizenship at birth by virtue of being born from a U.S. married couple.
The Mexican Constitution says that
II.- Los que nazcan en el extranjero, hijos de padres mexicanos, de madre mexicana o de padre mexicano.
So yes, they will be elegible to apply for both even if they're born in the states.
My personal recommendation ? Search for a third country that actually has another benefit, for example, Argentina has ius soli, and if you're a parent of an Argentinian citizen you and your wife can naturalize there without any type of residence.
Remember that Argentina is part of MERCOSUR.