Thanks for the tips!

With so few of us going through this strange bureaucratic journey, it’s good to find each other.

I’ll keep you posted.

-nina

And good luck back at you!

well thanks for the information, it’s really useful (and inspiring) for me even at this stage (i have most of my documents and i’m heading up to the consulate this week to hopefully finally make the appointment).

good luck!

My stuff is coming along well; I have all of the documents save one backup document from the INS. I don’t really need it but it’s extra ammunition to confirm that my great grandfather wasn’t a US Citizen until after my grandfather.

I did however just get a quote for translation – $40 per document! Ouch! That is going to set me back $400!

Good luck with your next steps, fingers crossed for you!

Remember me? Well, I had my appointment in NYC today for my dual citizenship. What a nightmare! I’m hoping it’s easier for you than it is for me.

Me, my mom and my two sisters all went today to become dual citizens. We all came back empty handed. They told us that my mom can’t become a citizen unless she proves it through bloodlines with grandpa’s birth certificate because she’s been an American for too long and forgot to update her files in 1997. Plus, she’s not even in the computer. I can become an Italian citizen once I find a long form of my birth certificate and have it translated and notarized and then I need to attach an Apostille to it. Why me? Because I was born when my mom was still officially Italian. My mom became an American 4 months before my middle sister was born, and so she can’t be a citizen either, plus she’s too old. My little sister is still a minor and she could be a citizen only if my mom were still Italian. (But we can all fix this with my grandparents’ birth certificates… but still… it means we all have to come back.)

What a nightmare! I hope I don’t have to miss another day of work again for all these shenanigans. Hopefully I can do all the rest of this through email/fax/mail.

Hope your appointment goes better.

Actually, I’m in NY. I’ll be making a nice trek to NYC soon. My mom set this whole thing up because her and dad were born over there so it was easier for us to set up this whole thing than it was for you.

I’m hoping there isn’t too much of a discrepancy between consulates over the US. ::crosses fingers::

Oh! I read somewhere else (I dunno if this person was talking out of their ass or not but…) that if you’re a US citizen and claim citizenship somewhere else, you give up your citizenship here, but if you were born overseas, and the country you were born in allows dual-citizenship and moved here, then you can be a citizen of both. ??? Do you anything of that?

I stumbled upon this blog in my quest to find out what the interview would be like when I finally go for my dual citizenship sometime in the next 3 months. I dispared a little when I read that you won’t go for your interview until August of this year. Bummer….

If I remember, I will try to give you a heads up on the whole ordeal. Good luck!

~Jen