# Is it law or SOP that dual citizens can't become President/PM?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 17, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-law-or-sop-that-dual-citizens-cant-become-president-pm/712957 "2015-02-17T22:10:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-law-or-sop-that-dual-citizens-cant-become-president-pm/712957/41 "2015-02-20T08:48:44Z")

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> [@Monty](#):
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> Her lying about “a special arrangement with the United States” and Ireland didn’t bite her in the tush?

Most people didn’t realise she was lying (or more likely misinformed). I get asked all the time here if I had to give up my US citizenship, almost nobody understands that both countries allow dual.

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