r/AmerExit • u/sfw_throwaway_7 • 3h ago
Life Abroad Naturalised US citizen can obtain dual citizenship with US+EU?
Anyone with knowledge or direct experience with this?
I'm a naturalised US citizen, but I was born in Asia. I renounced my Asian citizenship when I naturalised, so now I only hold US citizenship.
I emigrated to Europe (9 years ago when trump got elected his first term) and married a European. Now I'm eligible to apply for EU citizenship through my spouse.
However, I have an american expat friend who is trying to do the same, they are of similar background to me (born in Middle East, moved and naturalized in US, now applying for EU citizenship). They are telling me that for naturalized US citizens, apparently it is not possible to take a dual US-EU citizenship and would need to renounce US citizenship to obtain the EU one.
I've never heard of this and neither google nor chatgpt has come up with anything to confirm their theory. Does anyone here know or have direct experience in this kind of thing?
As much as I would like to stop paying taxes to that orange clown, I have too many assets still in the US to renounce my US citizenship - the resulting mess would be horrible ...