Do you consider acquiring a dual citizenship for yourself or a member of your family – your child, your husband or a grandchild? Wonder if you are making the right decision, decision that involves a number of complex issues such as making research on which supportive documents you shall to collect, how to prepare them in accordance with the regulations of the particular country and by what means to process them in the USA so that they to be accepted by the foreign authorities or their consulates in the United States?
Frequently discussing advantages and disadvantages of dual citizenship with the clients whom we assisted with the documents preparation for the said purpose, in our view, dual citizenship serves as a method of unlocking new opportunities, setting up new objectives and achieving new goals, meeting new people, taking on a challenge for yourself and enjoying success after you complete it.
Benefits of Dual Citizenship
With dual citizenship or dual nationality, a person has access to many benefits that each country provides:
- Maintaining and using two passports, what makes traveling between two countries infinitely easier by eliminating the need for special visas and visa related costs and issues
- Ability to study abroad for a very affordable amount with applicable citizen tuition rates or take advantage of free education in some countries
- Ability to work in either country without first having to obtain special work permits accessing to social service programs, systems and medical benefits of both countries
- Ability to own a property of start a business in either country which makes staying in two countries more convenient and economical
- Gaining voting rights in each country
- Citizenship by birth. Children are born with dual citizenship if they were given birth in the territory of the USA to the parents who are foreign nationals (unless the parents are diplomats).
- Citizenship by parent. Child can acquire dual nationality if born in the USA and one of the parents is a citizen of a foreign country.
- Citizenship by marriage. If you are a U.S. citizen and your spouse has dual citizenship, he/she can apply for a citizenship of a particular country for you as well.
- Citizenship by descendant. If you have ancestors (such as parents, grandparents, or even great-grandparents) from a country, you may be eligible to become a citizen of that country yourself.
- Naturalization process . you can apply for one upon fulfilling residence requirements of a particular country
- Adoption. If the child is adopted as a minor to a citizen parent, he or she can acquire a citizenship of the country from which parents originate.
Filling up applications and forms for dual citizenship
Once you’ve confirmed that you are allowed to apply for dual citizenship, you have to complete proper forms (often provided on the websites of the consulates in foreign languages). You could be stuck in the first place if you do not speak a word in the language of the country: besides the forms are in a foreign language, in most of the cases the applicant is also required fill them in a foreign language.
Solution: Our translator’s will translate the forms into English, you fill the forms in English and we translate the data entered by you into a foreign language.
- Birth Certificate
- Marriage Certificate
- Divorce Certificate of Judgment of Divorce
- U.S. Passport or Government-issued ID
- FBI Background Check Certificate
- Police Clearance or Certificate of Good Conduct obtained from the local authorities in the state of you current residence.
- Proof of Residency
If applying for citizenship by parents, parents or descent, you may also need to collect the birth, marriage, divorce (if any) and death certificates of every relevant family member through whom you are claiming citizenship.
Apostille on documents for dual citizenship
After you gather the documents mentioned above, the next step is to legalize them by obtaining Apostille Certificate, translate the documents into a foreign language and authenticate translations.
Depending of the state, county and year of issue, the documents are processed via different means. For instance, in some of the U.S. states, in order to get Vital Records authenticated by a County Clerk and certified Apostille, you have to obtain the most recent Long (aka Extended) Forms of the documents in question. These forms are available in local or state departments managing the population’s vital records. If you experience issues with finding out where you should go to retrieve your vitals, email or call us. We’ll gladly assist you with the documents retrieving and provide you with the necessary information on how and where to obtain the document you need and assist you with further legalization of the retrieved documents.
Important: If the country you are applying for citizenship in is a not a member to the Apostille Convention, the documents shall undergo through Consular/Embassy Legalization. Please contact us, specify the country the documents are meant for, and we’ll provide you with detailed and accurate information on how your documents supposed to be processed.
Documents translation for dual citizenship purpose
Based on our vast experience in preparing documents for the clients applying for citizenship in Albania, Arabic speaking countries, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Finland, Greece, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan and many other countries, all documents submitted in support of an application or petition for dual citizenship must include complete translation into a language of the country you are applying with. Furthermore, the translations shall be certified in a foreign language, notarized, authenticated and bear apostille.
Whereas, you would like to join our efforts together by letting us to help you with Apostille,
Whereas, you’ve obtained Apostille on documents on your own,
Now, therefore, to accomplish your documents processing, we are to give you a handle with the documents translation into a foreign language.
Please, contact us if you have any questions on your consulate / embassy requirements regarding preparation of documents translation meant for dual citizenship.
No matter where you are now (in the U.S. or overseas), no matter what documents you were required to submit for your dual citizenship purpose, no matter into what language your document need to be translated, our team of notaries, certified translators, document legalization agents and partners around the U.S. will take care of any single task and issue, properly, promptly and professionally