Posted on 08/15/2004 11:50:50 PM PDT by yonif
Mexico-born U.S. citizens who missed their chance to reclaim their Mexican nationality last year can try again starting today.
The Mexican government has decided to revive the doble nacionalidad, or dual nationality, program that it stopped in 2003. This time, the program will go on indefinitely.
Candidates can apply at Mexican embassies and consulates, preferably by appointment, officials with the Mexican Consulate in El Paso said. The fee will be $14.
El Pasoan Maria Caballero, 27, said she would stop by the consulate next week to check on the petition for dual nationality she started at the last minute last year. Caballero said she filed some paperwork but didn't hear from the authorities before the deadline. Caballero was naturalized seven years ago but last year she decided she wanted her Mexican rights back, she said.
Officials said dual nationals can buy property in places in Mexico where foreigners can't, can travel without visas, work and study, send a child to public school and day care, and vote, if they comply with other requirements.
"The big one would be voting. It bothers me to lose this right as a Mexican," Caballero said.
Consular officials said many people started the process too late last time and couldn't complete it because they were still missing documents by the March 30, 2003, deadline.
The program was created in 1998 by a constitutional amendment that gave Mexican natives who had become citizens of other countries five years to regain their Mexican passports.
During the five years, 4,000 people in El Paso participated in the program -- almost half of them during the frantic last two weeks. In the United States, 70,000 people regained their Mexican nationality that way.
Mexican senators said reviving the program was a way to repay Mexico's debt to its migrant workers who contribute to the Mexican economy by sending money back to their families.
The program applies to Mexico-born people who were nationalized before 1998. People who switched nationality after March 20, 1998, were granted automatic dual nationality.
How do you say "Sudetenland" in Hispanic?
The US should ban dual nationality
BTTT
Gee, as an American citizen, it bothers me to lose the right of sovereignty to people who migrate north because they don't feel like living in their own country. But I guess that doesn't matter. It will, though, when a couple of illegals blow up Los Angeles or New Mexico. Then federal big thinkers will say, Oh, how did we miss this hole in national security? Which, by the way, with leaky borders is an oxymoron.
??????They never gave it up??????
ping
Never going to happen.
I absolutely agree. Pick one country and become loyal to that country.
Reminds me of the phrase" Go, or get off the pot".
Vincente Fox wants his countrymen to be able to vote themselves American taxpayer money, so that they can send it home to Mexico.
Dual citizenship should not be an option.
Yea the illegals here do not have to worry about that they can often vote here and there too.
Nothing surprises me any more. How long until someone suggests a "north American birth certificate "
How do you say "Sudetenland" in Hispanic?"
RECONQUISTA!
And they're talking about it in Mexico publications. They see it as the natural result of birth rate and immigration demographics.
Can I become a dual citizen of Mexico and vote for them to close off their northern border?
"The US should ban dual nationality"
They do. They can't enforce it though. How would they?
Can an American born national hold dual citizenship? Is it not grounds of losing U.S. citizenship to take an oath of allegiance before a foreign Consular?
Is this not a form of discrimination if an American national wanted dual citizenship? Why does America not require them to renounce their citizenship status for an American? Can U.S. courts not find this unconstitutional based upon the fact that some persons are prohibited because of "nationality"?
They do. They can't enforce it though. How would they?"
They don't. Except for U.S. born citizens, foreign immigrants can retain their citizenship of birth and the U.S. can do nothing short of refusing their citizenship - and we won't even do that for the sake of "diversity" of heritages.
GREAT IDEA!! Ours would be just as "legal" as theirs. Then we could vote for Mexico's statehood into the US.
Maybe a slight problem with that idea... as the article states "...if they comply with other requirements...", such a s mandatory 2 yr military service for all males 18 yrs and older. I think the U.S. says that's a sure-fire way to lose your U.S. citizenship, ie- to serve under another country's flag...(I'm not sure how the UN gets away with it...)
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