Naoautorizada, most countries allow dual citizenship. In fact, I can't think of any, off the top of my head, that don't.
To be honest, I had no idea. So then there really aren't any drawbacks, per se - only advantages. What a novel thought.... Will investigage this one more when time allows as the possibilties appear to provide some unique benefits. Thanks Drew!
Czech Republic don't allow it apparently. I'd say the biggest benefit is not having to renew your fm3 or 2 every year. Saving lots of hassle and $$!
Not having to deal with Immigration would be huge! It will save hours and hours of hassle, and money too. And when you are a citizen you can buy property outright and there's no hassle with changing jobs and needing permission from Immigration for that. There's every advantage to becoming a Mexican citizen.
Yes, the UK allow dual citizenship. If they didnt then I most certainly would not relinquish it. I will always be English first and foremost. My daughter (who was born here) already holds both passports, any future kids would too. As already mentioned there are only plus points -immigration hassle free and property ownership are two big ones, but on a personal level too I think it important to be a "proper" part of the country I choose to live in.
And so the fun begins: Having had our apostilled marriage certificate translated into Spanish (250 pesos) picked up and copied Jannet went to the registry office today. After queuing for an hour, first the fee. Despite being displayed on the wall as 48 pesos, it is actually 600 pesos. The 48 pesos is per copy although the price list doesn't mention anything about copies. They cant accept debit/credit cards and the unpublished 600 pesos has to be paid in cash. But more than that they want to keep our original marriage certificate with our original apostille! No doubt to stuff in a filing cabinet for the next 30 years never to be viewed again. There is no chance I'm going to surrender our apostilled certificate when we will most certainly need it for other things - not least to prove we are married when travelling to the UK for Jannets immigration status there and I'm sure the passport office will want to see an original (and probably want to keep one too). I suppose we could get a couple of 'original' marriage certificates re-issued in the UK, and then go through the apostille process once again. But that is going to cost us around $200 for each one, plus more hassle and international couriers etc. I think we'll go back another day and try and argue the toss with someone, but it's not looking good so far and we've barely started.
I'm not sure how much good or bad this would do, but when I run into ridiculous requests like that I ask to speak to the head person and explain to me the sense of such requirements. I do know that everyone under extreme duress makes exceptions. Many times I was escorted out, but many times it actually worked. Your wife should be the one arguing it tho. The 600 peso fee, I'd be arguing it to death. Worse case scenario, I'll make them write on a scrap piece of paper and tape it to the window. I wonder if they'll be escorting me out of the country for good.
Steve - We registered our marriage here, when we first moved here. We got all the originals BACK when they were finished. And it was $200 pesos per page, so since our marriage certificate, with translated apostille, didn't fit on one page we had to pay $400, for 2 pages. But you SHOULD have more than one apostille of any given document. I got like 3 or 4 apostilles of every doc. And have used most of them up now after all the various things we've registered for here.
Steve, May I suggest you call Lic. Irma Garcia in Mexico City at 01 555 063 3163 (direct). She has been extremely helpful with me. See what she says. It might be worth going there... I did to retrieve my carta de naturalizacion, even though the tramite has started here. If you need more info, you can email me or call me. Good luck. I wouldn't surrender my original documents either.
