Which Country Do You Claim Citizenship?

You forgot this one...

I'm pretty much stuck in the US unless I marry some foreign bird or pay-off the authorities of any given developing nation that accepts bribes. I have a list of good tax havens in case I need to make that happen.

UK, but bloodline is Irish all the way

Should really sort that passport out sometime soon

You could apply for citizenship in Forvik Island.

I'm a US citizen and Hong Kong resident.

Dual US and Canadian citizenship - I was born in Canada with American parents.

My youngest daughter actually has those two plus Russian citizenship - and she is an avid gymnast so she will have the choice of three Olympic teams if she gets good enough...

My daughter has dual HK and US. It's nice to have the unrestricted choice of where to study/work/settle/retire.

Thanks for being our 'man on the street' in HK.

No offense, but I just think of this when someone mentions "Sicilian".

Me? American. Mother's Irish/French. Father was German.

Let's see... I have Malaysian citizenship from being born there (1978) and living there until 12, studied in Singapore until 16 (student visa), Australian permanent resident since 1996 or so... expires in 2011, had a USA Internship then USA H1B visa (2000-2002), now in the UK on UK working holiday visa.

Why do they make it so hard for honest folk like me to live and travel around the world?

US

Mother's side was Czech. Great grandparents were literally off the boat, as it were. Their last name WAS "Check."

Dad's side is English+German, which explains my love of beer and disdain for brushing my teeth.

100 % Swiss Made

(my ancestors on the mother's side where robber-knights, the folks on the father's side smugglers in world war II)

How is it "permanent residency" if it expires?

Yup. I guess "permanent residency" is now a fairly loose immigration concept. I can stay there indefinitely but if I leave the country or have been out of the country for a while I need a resident return visa to "keep" my residency status.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...anent_resident

"...Holders of permanent residency visas may remain in Australia indefinitely. These visas last up to five years from the date of grant. Until the permanent resident visa expires, the visa holder may leave and re-enter Australia freely. A notable feature of the permanent residency visa is that, even after the initial visa expires, the holder is entitled to stay in Australia indefinitely without breaching immigration regulations...After the initial visa has expired, if the holder wishes to continue to travel to and from Australia as a permanent resident, he/she must obtain a Resident Return Visa (RRV). [2]However those who live for too long outside Australia may lose their permanent resident status..."

For Australia, only citizenship right now is a full and "permanent" guarantee of a right to live and work there. However, it is not compatible with Malaysian citizenship (Malaysia will remove your Malaysian citizenship if you become an Australian citizen). Though US-Australia dual citizenship is allowed, UK-Australia is allowed. I wonder if someday I can be a citizen of the USA, UK and Australia. And the European Union. That would be cool. I guess UK citizenship covers the Euro area appropriately.

Clearly this is still many world leaders' concept of citizenship:

You mean that you have to serve in the military before getting citizenship, even if you are born there? That's how it was in the Starship Troopers book.

Yeah, while not all countries require conscription, it is still held in many countries, that you have to be born somewhere and be of outstanding character to be a citizen, having lived there for a long time, and so on.

I admire the ideal of citizenship (not in the extreme of Starship Troopers) but in today's world it doesn't really pan out like that. If I am a generally responsible member of society, why don't I have a right to live and work somewhere? And if I am in trouble mentally, or healthwise, who should be the country that provides me a safety net? Somewhere where I have paid taxes? Or not? Or somewhere I was born but never lived or worked and never paid a single tax dollar my whole life?

Because you might be one of them darn terrorists.

Nah, it's mostly because there are a lot of people in the world, including many on this forum, who either don't understand or don't like the idea of free trade and simplified (and minimal) tax codes. Migration and globalization have been pests for isolationist lawmakers (i.e. self-righteous populists) long before terrorism was a global phenomenon.

unfortunately, I can only claim to be french
my mother started a genealogia and for centuries we are french (some italian blood also). Two popes are also my uncles (one was the one who destroyed the Templier order)

Bad ass. Your ancestor was responsible for Friday The 13th and all that. Wicked. Maybe they did it because YOU are the bloodline of you-know-who.... ...in some twisted kind of way to actually hide etc etc.