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Getting an American passport

  • 11-05-2013 5:36pm
    #1
    coffeelover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭


    Hi. I was born in the United States in 1994 to Irish parents but moved back to Ireland soon after and currently hold an Irish passport. I now want to apply for an American passport. Am i entitled to get one? :confused:


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  • #2
    ABajaninCork
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    Call the Embassy and check.


  • #3
    studdlymurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭studdlymurphy


    Yes you are!
    You will have to apply for it through the US embassy.


  • #4
    Victor
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    Realise that there may be some unwanted side-effects. You may have to live int eh USA for a certain amount of time and you will potentially be subject to the draft.


  • #5
    studdlymurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭studdlymurphy


    Victor wrote: »
    Realise that there may be some unwanted side-effects. You may have to live int eh USA for a certain amount of time and you will potentially be subject to the draft.

    You do not need to spend any time in the US once you are born there it is your right to have a passport, however you may get drafted if they decided to draft people which is highly unlikely in my opinion so I wouldn't worry about that aspect of it.


  • #6
    coffeelover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    Thanks a million for the replys. Was wondering would I still be able to use my Irish one as well? :confused:


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  • #7
    3DataModem
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    coffeelover wrote: »
    Thanks a million for the replys. Was wondering would I still be able to use my Irish one as well? :confused:

    Very unlikely. Also you will have to pay some US income taxes (they tax all citizens regardless of where they reside).


  • #8
    studdlymurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭studdlymurphy


    3DataModem wrote: »
    Very unlikely. Also you will have to pay some US income taxes (they tax all citizens regardless of where they reside).

    You can hold dual passports so you can use the US passport while entering the US and your Irish while leaving to make things run smoothly visa wise. You do need to fill in tax but you would be make tax returns of zero as you are not earning and living in the US.


  • #9
    JustAThought
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    studdlymurphy wrote: »
    You can hold dual passports so you can use the US passport while entering the US and your Irish while leaving to make things run smoothly visa wise. You do need to fill in tax but you would be make tax returns of zero as you are not earning and living in the US.

    That may be the done practice but to hold American citizenship you must only have one passport - the American one. The fact that zillions of Irish continue to use the Irish one & keep it dosn't change that " they" want you to only commit to one - the American one .


  • #10
    Fred Swanson
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  • #11
    ResearchWill
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    Yes and as they have a tax treaty with Ireland all Irish paid tax counts as a credit. Irish income tax is usually more than US so no libality in the US.


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  • #12
    Dandelion6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭Dandelion6


    JustAThought wrote: »
    That may be the done practice but to hold American citizenship you must only have one passport - the American one. The fact that zillions of Irish continue to use the Irish one & keep it dosn't change that " they" want you to only commit to one - the American one .

    This is untrue. Americans are fully entitled to hold the passport of any other country that allows them to hold dual nationality (such as Ireland). However, the US will not recognise you as a dual citizen; as far as they're concerned you're theirs and theirs alone. All this means basically is that you can't get out of any obligations you owe to the US by saying "well I'm also an Irish citizen".

    Your only real obligations are:
    1) Always enter the US on your US passport.
    2) File an annual tax return. If you earn less than around $95,000 per year you won't actually have to pay any tax. (This isn't because of any tax treaty, it's just the basic rule applying to US citizens abroad.)

    In practice, lots of US citizens living abroad skip #2. It probably won't affect you unless you go to live in the US in which case the IRS may well want to know why they never heard from you all those years before.

    - Dandelion6, dual US/Irish citizen


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