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This means that, until he became a citizen, he'd immigration status in the US would have been: "exceptional alien".
That's not a status i'd give up easily. :)
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Before you ask, you've been downvoted for failing to grasp irony.
This is actually directed at kiuyhjk's reply, not your's philwelch, but... uh, there's no reply link on kiuyhjk's post in my browser (Chrome 6.0.472.51 beta on Fedora 12) Anyway, kiuyhjk - very funny post, very meta
so, just be more patient in the future ...
Not to be all nationalistic or anything (and it's been said before), but it is interesting that people seem to immigrate to the U.S. far more than they emigrate from it.
When good americans die - they go to Paris
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What of exactly?
The USA, for being appealing enough to make Linus want to (first) move here and (now) take on citizenship, instead of just telnetting from Finland - or anywhere else on the planet he might have liked better.
I can live and work permanently in 27 countries (including Finland) without having to change nationality.
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What of exactly?
The USA, for being appealing enough to make Linus want to (first) move here and (now) take on citizenship, instead of just telnetting from Finland - or anywhere else on the planet he might have liked better.
You don't know his motives. Maybe he just did it because it's more convenient for him to currently work there, and constantly having to organise visas was a pain in the arse?
For all we know he hates the USA...?
Not to be all nationalistic or anything (and it's been said before), but it is interesting that people seem to immigrate to the U.S. far more than they emigrate from it.
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That's interesting. I've heard that dual citizenship wasn't exactly liked by the US government. I was under the impression that US citizens that move to other countries had to renounce their US citizenship before becoming citizen of the other country.
http://www.richw.org/dualcit/faq.html#noway Struck down by the courts a very long time ago.
This is highly unlikely, but for instance if you're eligible for a draft, and both countries draft you, one of them is not going to be happy with your response.
There are probably some more likely scenarios where your obligations to one of your nations are in conflict with the other.
Not to be all nationalistic or anything (and it's been said before), but it is interesting that people seem to immigrate to the U.S. far more than they emigrate from it.
But it's much harder for someone from the US to move to central Europe, aside from the UK and some enclaves that speak English.