married to a DomYorker...

[donP]

Originally Posted by mas_freca_que_chinatown:)

yea, ___ but since i've decided to dedicate my whole life to this side of the ocean, i think i would actually be better off as a dominican citizen

Very consistent, as you "love the Dominican people and the culture".

How will your little daughter be affected by your choice?

[MikeFisher]

Originally Posted by donP

Very consistent, as you "love the Dominican people and the culture".

How will your little daughter be affected by your choice?

very important question, yeap.
the mother can get her residency easily anyways, maybe one day the other citizenship could be of a help for the young crowd.
Mike

[mas_freca_que_chinatown:)]

Originally Posted by MikeFisher

very important question, yeap.
the mother can get her residency easily anyways, maybe one day the other citizenship could be of a help for the young crowd.
Mike

i've thought of that too, of course

and it's all been taken care of - my daughter is a US citizen (born in NY) and also Latvian citizen (i succesfully took care of that...). she has both passports. Latvia allows dual citizenship for minors, she will just have to choose which citizenship she wants to keep when she turns 18. and by then she'll be mature enough to make that kind of a desicion. it will be up to her. far as DR goes, i will just make her a resident, if at all...

does that sound reasonable enough?

[MikeFisher]

that sounds just very well taken care of.
Mike

[AlterEgo]

I keep meaning to find out if the US allows triple citizenship. I'm American married to a Dominican who has dual Dominican/US citizenship for 32 years, and I never gave much thought to getting Dominican citizenship, although it seems it would be an easy process. Now we're planning on retiring to DR so it's probably time to get it - or maybe better off with just residency. I'm applying for my Italian citizenship/passport now, not that I plan to ever live there, but our son wants his Italian citizenship and I'm the only way he can get it. I doubt I can carry 3 passports, so I may just go with the Italian one, because our son can always get his Dominican passport if he wants it, through my husband.

Is there any benefit to having Dominican citizenship as opposed to Dominican residency?

Opinions welcome!

[MikeFisher]

right,
throu his father the son will not have a problem to get the dominican citizenship when needed/wanted.
for you, to be a citizen with an additional passport or just to be a resident with your US and European Union passport i would say the dominican passport as a thrid passport(if allowed, i have no clue if the involved countries allow or not to have 3 passports) will not bring additional advances. but if the US and Europe allow that tripple passport there would not be a negative to have it neither.
Mike

[mas_freca_que_chinatown:)]

Originally Posted by AlterEgo

I keep meaning to find out if the US allows triple citizenship. I'm American married to a Dominican who has dual Dominican/US citizenship for 32 years, and I never gave much thought to getting Dominican citizenship, although it seems it would be an easy process. Now we're planning on retiring to DR so it's probably time to get it - or maybe better off with just residency. I'm applying for my Italian citizenship/passport now, not that I plan to ever live there, but our son wants his Italian citizenship and I'm the only way he can get it. I doubt I can carry 3 passports, so I may just go with the Italian one, because our son can always get his Dominican passport if he wants it, through my husband.

Is there any benefit to having Dominican citizenship as opposed to Dominican residency?

Opinions welcome!

far as i know, when a country allows "dual" citizenship, it basically means that if you qualify for citizenship of that spesific country, they just don't care/check if you're some other country's citizen. that's what i was told when i made my daughter a citizen of Latvia. so basically you CAN have more than two citizenships.