It depends on the countries in question. I know people who hold multiple nationalities that way.
Generally speaking, it is better to have never been a US citizen than to have renounced it. Consequences can occur.
While that might be true if you consider all taxes, your comment seems to specifically refer to income tax, and that isn’t strictly true (from 4 years ago but AFAIK things haven’t changed drastically).
People read the oaths involved in becoming a citizen, and assume it means you’re renouncing. Not so, unless the other country requires it. The only time the oath might be relevant is if the US goes to war with your old country. But generally speaking, the US doesn’t care if you are a citizen of another given country and
Yes. Here’s a map I found. Green is supposed to be the ones that allow it, but I cannot make any claims towards its current accuracy.
Sure, given three countries who allow it and if the third is jus soli.
I don’t think it’s remotely as ludicrous as the Birthers. Cruz was born in Canada to Canadian Citizens. His mom left the US to live in Canada and pursued Canadian citizenship. It is at least plausible that she also relinquished her US citizenship at the same time, either for tax or political purposes.
Obama was born in the US, and very early on provided conclusive documentation certified by the government of Hawaii as to that fact.
Back to Cruz, the only way one can prove his mom did or didn’t renounce her US citizenship is to ask the State Department if they have any records of her doing so. Since I’m not an insane asshole (i.e. Birther) I would accept their statement on this point without reservation. Has anyone bothered to ask, the way they asked Obama for his birth certificate?
The guy born in the US gets questioned for years about his parentage, while the guy who WAS born in another country, to citizens of that country, and has (had) citizenship to that country for his entire life doesn’t have to provide a speck of information about his birth?
It’s a Constitutional Requirement, and there’s nothing at all wrong with asking the appropriate government functionary for data supporting that requirement. It’s when you start questioning the validity of their data that you enter CrazyTown.
I cannot find a reliable source for this claim.
It’s of idle interest only, but Cruz could still have Cuban citizenship too, depending on Cuban law at the time.
But he’s had US citizenship since birth, therefore so what?
OF course, we need to remember that Canada really is sort of Americaish anyway, being as it borders us in two places and is comprised mostly of white folks. Unlike Hawaii which, while it does belong to us, is out in the middle of the ocean and home to a lot of minorities.
Before you get into the issue of whether she renounced, shouldn’t there be clear proof that she acquired Canadian citizenship?
Also, if she did in fact acquire Canadian citizenship and did in fact renounce US citizenship while she was in Canada, how did she manage to get back into the US to live there? Canadians have no right to live in the US.
Are you saying that Ted Cruz’s mother is an illegal alien? :eek:
Some people rebel against their parents, but overall people have similar attitudes to their parents. So I highly doubt Cruz comes from the type of family that would drop their citizenship to protest Vietnam or whatever.
How dare you make me look stupid and point out an enormous gaping flaw in my assumptions made when I took part of the OP at face value!
That’s just, well, you know…
I’ll show myself out.
I’m afraid I’m going to have to see ALL the long-form certificates before I’M convinced.
Personally, I think Cruz is some sort of Martian blob-creature, wearing a LOT of make-up, and therefore ineligible for the Presidency. We should rocket him back out into space as soon as possible, before he lays any further groundwork for Earth invasion by his fellow hideous blob people from another world.
He looks nothing like his father, just saying.
Johnny L.A., you know that we can’t find a paper citing a renunciation of citizenship that didn’t happen? We can’t positively prove a negative.
We know that somehow Ted Cruz claims to have been raised in Texas. That implies that his parents moved there, which would be surprising if his mother had previously renounced her USA citizenship.
Cruz Sr did not have American citizenship to renounce until 2005. Might his move to Canada relate to the war in Southeast Asia? Even as a legal resident in the USA, he might have been subject to Selective Service. As a Canadian citizen, in Canada, he wouldn’t even have counted as a draft evader. Of course, as a married man with children he would have been safe. But the timeline of Cruz Sr’s first marriage & divorce–and the same events in Ted’s mom’s life–remain mysterious.
Ted has been known to wonder how the son of a Cuban and an Irish/Italian came to be Southern Baptist. Quite simple: Catholics can divorce but can’t remarry in the Church without an annulment. Ted’s parents wanted him to be born legitimate so one or both of them dumped their original religion. Cruz Sr was “saved” later so his previous life Did Not Count. Still later, Ted’s parents divorced; his mother has chosen a private life.
Getting a CRBA is not automatic, you have to apply in writing and prove US citizenship for the US citizen parent which also involves an interview all at the embassy.
So his mother proved she was a citizen at the time of his birth with documentation to the satisfaction of a consular officer, so there is that.
The proof of this would be a CRBA for Cruz or a US passport.