Re:Americans abroad are giving up their citizenship as banks...
by idlewords on Thursday September 25, 2014 @04:14PM
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That is still the oath they make you take, but it has no legal consequences. You take it, eat the brownies that the VFW baked for your naturalization ceremony, and happily keep both passports.
Source: happily kept both passports.
"“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen…” from the Oath of Allegiance "
http://www.newcitizen.us/dual.html
apparently it is not binding:
" the oath has never been enforced to require the actual termination of original citizenship"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#c...
Edit: can you ask your family if they took that oath, or is the information obsolete? Until now, I thought it was an actual requirement to renounce other citizenships.