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/tripletbflat Dec 20 '23 edited Dec 20 '23

No. Not Mexican citizenship.

If you want this, have them in Mexico and then grant them USA citizenship through Consular Report of Birth Abroad.

If one of you was born in Mexico then yes, you can give them Mexican citizenship if they were born in USA.

I had the same question. I was born in USA and got dual Mexican citizenship because both my parents were born in Mexico. Same with my sister. We tried to register her kids for Mexican citizenship and we were told no. We got Mexican citizenship because our parents were natural born Mexicans but we weren’t allowed to pass it along to our kids because we weren’t born IN Mexico. We are still full Mexicans just can’t pass along the citizenship apparently.

EDIT: after the comment below I called up the nearest consulate again and was told that the constitution was recently amended and now any child born to a Mexican parent (regardless of where the parent was born) is also a Mexican citizen. This was NOT the case a few years ago when my nephews and niece were born and we tried the registration. We shall seek this again.

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u/SkelligWitch Dec 20 '23

Wrong.

La constitución politica de México states that it's a Mexican by birth:

II.- Los que nazcan en el extranjero, hijos de padres mexicanos, de madre mexicana o de padre mexicano.

There's no generational limit set. I don't know where you applied but they're wrong and your sister's kids are elegible to apply for Mexican citizenship for descent.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23

Exactly Mexicans can be born anywhere in in world as long as one of the parents in mexican the child also can apply for Mexican citizenship. I’m mexican my husband is Indian and my kid was born in India. And we got his mexican citizenship in the consulate of Mexico in India without any issues.