Dual Citizenship

[CanadianCountry]

Hello York,
How will a US citizen maintain an intent not to relinquish his US citizenship?

This is not true. If a U.S. citizen voluntarily applies for naturalization in another country, with the intent to relinquish his/her U.S. citizenship, he/she may lose U.S. citizenship. If you naturalize in another country (or exercise rights associated with having another citizenship, such as by voting in a foreign election), and do not intend to relinquish your U.S. citizenship, you are not at risk of losing it.

 

[YorkFactory]

If, when you are naturalized as a citizen of a different country, you don't intend to lose your U.S. citizenship, you do not lose it. It's that simple.

 

[keesio]

If you don't do anything to relinquish your US citizenship, then nothing happens. I have a US citizenship by birth and became a naturalized Canadian citizen last year. I am now a dual citizen.

In actuality, it is quite difficult to relinquish your US citizenship. They recently quadrupled the fee to relinquish and it takes a long time, requires an interview with the US state department and even then they may deny your request to relinquish.