Saturday, February 26, 2011

Citizenship

*PLEASE READ THE COMMENT SECTION OF THIS POST LA GRINGA POSTED SOME VERY HELPFUL LINKS*
Citizenship is to me such a curious thing. Some countries allow only one citizenship, others multiple until a certain age, others unlimited multiple.

I have had conversations with people who are surprised that I married to a Honduran do not have Honduran citizenship, and my Husband married to an American does not have American citizenship. Admittedly esposo is on track to obtain citizenship- we just are not there yet.
From reading the sparse information on-line and what I gather from other Hondurans in the news, dual-citizenship is accepted, but I cannot really tell if it technically legal.
The issues I have with Honduran citizenship regulations is that the best a child of a Honduran not born in Honduras can do is obtain a visa (does anybody have a personal experience obtaining this?) that allows the child to stay in Honduras for as long as they like. I find this mostly sad, why such restrictions? (I stand corrected please read comments)
The second thing is that I could move back to Honduras, and live there for the rest of my life and STILL never be a citizen with a passport.
I do understand there are many countries that have similar polices like this, and maybe this shows that I am truly a product of a western country for thinking this is crazy.

6 comments:

La Gringa said...

Not so. A child of a Honduran citizen born anywhere in the world can obtain a Honduran birth certificate and passport. You and your husband can apply at a Honduran consulate in the US. RNP website, question 62

You could become a naturalized citizen of Honduras. There is more information about this at the Minister of Interior website.

La Gringa said...

I forgot to say the dual citizenship is allowed in Honduras, too.

Kegarnay said...

LaGringa-
Thank you so much for your extremely helpful information. When I searched I could only find something called "evidence of continuance" for a child of a Honduran born Honduran.
I knew I could become a naturalized citizen, just not technically a dual-citizen.

Thank you!
Ohhh and I do not have any children, much to the dislike of my mother-in-law. =)

La Gringa said...

You are welcome.

I'm not sure what you mean by "not technically a dual citizen". I think you can be. Apparently in the past it may have been different, but I believe that I read something on the US State Department website that indicated that the US doesn't really have a problem with this anymore. Sorry that I don't recall the details but I think you'll find it if you search for dual citizenship. You can write me privately if you want to. ;-)

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