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Re:Linus Torvalds became US citizen by tokenadult on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @10:17AM (#1690622)
Read that more carefully: "The Supreme Court chose to leave in place the requirement that new citizens must renounce their old citizenship during US naturalization." Presumably, Linus was naturalized, rather than having a claim to United States citizenship from birth.
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Re:Linus Torvalds became US citizen by ojbyrne on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @10:47AM (#1690730)
I did read it more carefully. The next sentence says essentially says that that has no effect (in the vast majority of cases), because other countries don't recognize it as renouncing citizenship. It's essentially ceremonial.
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Re:Linus Torvalds became US citizen by russell_h on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @10:28AM (#1690659)
Be that as it may, dual citizenship is definitely allowed, and not at all uncommon in the U.S., especially among European immigrants from what I've seen.
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