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Naturalized US Citizen moves back to native country and starts a family there?

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Is it ethical for a Swedish woman, who is a naturalized US Citizen to go back to her native country Sweden? She moved to Sweden when she was a small child, and became a naturalized US Citizen shortly after Swedish law allows double nationality. Less than a year later she moves back to Sweden permanently later maries Swedish man and have several Swedish born children, that she want to raise in Sweden? She wants to remain a double US/Swedish national even if she does not want to return to the United States. She also wants her Swedish born children that have two Swedish born parents, four Swedish born grand parents, and eight Swedish grant parents, to become US citizens (they are also Swedish Citizens) with out ever having to set foot on US soil. This is allowed under a legal technicality (US Law), and the US Supreme Court has ruled that this is protected under the fifth and fourteenth amendment of the US constitution.

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  1. only her kids will keep US citizenship, in order for them to pass it on they would have to live in the US for at least 4 years after age 14 (bascially college) and then they can transfer it to what would be her grand children,

    is it ethical? well its the law... I mean there are illegal immigrants that grow up in the US and are not US citizens yet this lady is.. but it is what it is....

    thats what juis sanguis does, citizenship is transmited trough parents but more likely than not the kids are very unlikely to remain US citizens unless they plan to live here


  2. I think it's ethical.  Would it have been more ethical for her to live in the US and raise a family there while still keeping her Swedish citizenship and making her children Swedish citizens even though they had never been to Sweden?

    She lived in the US and became a citizen, she has full right to keep that.  Maybe she will decide to move back there some day.  Maybe her children will want to go there some day.  Why not keep your options open?

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