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Second Passports And Dual Citizenship

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Aug 12, 2010
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How To Get A Second Passport (And Why You’d Want One In The First Place)

Years ago, when I was just starting out covering this beat, I encountered a headline that has stuck with me:

“Why Would You Want A Second Passport?”

At the time, I wondered myself. Why would anyone need or want a second passport?

Today, I understand.

About two years ago, after more than four years of back-and-forth with the Irish immigration authorities, I received my Irish passport in the mail. I was finally, officially, a dual citizen.

My son, Jackson, born while we were living in Waterford, is also Irish. At that time, Ireland offered jus soli, or rights-of-the-soil citizenship. That is, because I happened to be on Irish soil when Jack entered this world, Ireland rewarded him with citizenship.

Over-immigration caused the Irish to rethink their policies. Today, it is still possible to apply for an Irish passport based on your Irish maternal lineage, and it’s still possible to obtain Irish nationality by residing full-time in the country for five years or longer. However, the country no longer offers jus-soli citizenship.

We didn’t move to Ireland so that I could bear a child who would be eligible for Irish citizenship. We didn’t even move to Ireland so that we could earn Irish citizenship ourselves. And we didn’t relocate to Ireland with the definite intention of remaining in the country long enough to quality for a second passport.

We moved to Ireland to make a home and to build a business. We resided in the country full-time for seven years, expanded not only our business but also our family, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

As an added bonus, we earned Irish citizenship. We didn’t set out after it, for, again, I didn’t appreciate the value of a second passport 13 years ago when we made our initial move overseas.

Today, I do.

Planning a trip to Brazil? Americans need a visa…Irish nationals do not.

Want a bank account in Europe? An EU passport will open the doors of many bankers who otherwise might ignore your knocks.

Thinking you’d like to live or work in the EU? Good luck, my fellow American. No problem, though, dear fellow citizen of the Emerald Isle (or any other EU country).

Interested in traveling in the Middle East? In some countries, your blue passport with the eagle on the cover might seem a liability…but a red one with a harp on front won’t raise anybody’s eyebrows.

A second passport expands horizons and fosters opportunity. It allows you to live, work, and invest more freely. Jackson, for example, thanks to his Irish passport, will be able, if he wants, to attend university in Europe, to get a job in any EU country when he’s older, and to move around the European Union at will.

A passport for an EU member country brings special advantages, but it can also be the hardest to come by these days (with important exceptions, related to genealogy).

You have a number of other good alternatives, as well, in the Americas and the Caribbean.

Information on residency, citizenship, and second passports is easy to come by in this Internet Age. The trouble is, googling “foreign residency” or “second passports,” you don’t know whether you can trust the information you find.

The best (that is, the most reliable and trustworthy) source of information on foreign residency, citizenship, and second passports I know is The Sovereign Society. I’ve worked with this group for two decades. They know this beat. Their lead editor, attorney and former Congressman Robert Bauman, is a personal friend and the guy I go to first whenever I have a question on this front.

Bob has recently published a new edition of his best-seller The Passport Book: The Complete Guide to Offshore Residency, Dual Citizenship, & Second Passports.

This is the resource I recommend for all the information you need on this often misunderstood and misrepresented subject. Bob’s book details how to acquire residency in the world’s top overseas havens, as well as the current best options for obtaining dual nationality and a second passport.

It could be far easier than you might imagine to secure a second passport. As Bob puts it, “You could be owed one.”

“The key,” Bob explains, “may lurk up in your family tree.

“Several countries,” Bob continues, “grant full citizenship based on the law of blood, jus sanguinis, even without a descendant ever having lived in the country.”

Ireland offers one the best and best-known of these ancestral programs. If you  have a parent or grandparent born in Ireland, you are eligible for Irish nationality.

The Republic of Italy offers a similar program, as does Poland. If you are the descendant of Polish citizens who left Poland after the country became an independent state in 1918, you are eligible to claim citizenship as long as
there has been no break in Polish citizenship between the emigrant ancestor and you.

Other countries that offer citizenship based on the citizenship of parents or grandparents include Spain, Greece, Lithuania and Luxembourg.

Bob details the particulars of these second citizenship opportunities, along with those for a dozen other countries, in new edition of his Passport Book: The Complete Guide to Offshore Residency, Dual Citizenship, & Second Passports.

Kathleen Peddicord

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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