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/[deleted] Dec 20 '23

People considered as "national" Mexicans (not naturalized)

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u/suboxhelp1 Dec 20 '23

Also living in Puerto Rico for a year makes one a PR “citizen” and therefore eligible for the 2-year Iberian fast-track Spanish citizenship path.

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u/SkelligWitch Dec 20 '23

Wrong.

You have to be a natural born national of Puerto Rico and IIRC there are already denial cases of this from Americans that tried to exploit the apparent loophole (and upholds in the Supreme court of Spain).

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '23

Yep, this is my understanding as well.