> QA wrote:
>
> > Back to the topic of dual citizenship. What if the person is
> > CanaCiti and
> > JapaCiti or another country allowing Dual citizenship? In that case,
> > a dual
> > citizenship is a legal fact, can that person apply for US visa on
> > its none
> > Canadian passport? Did anyone do it, with success or failure?
>
> You still don't get it do you?!?!?!
>
> If he is a CANADIAN CITIZEN whether he's got another nationality or
> not,
> he does not NEED a visa. He simply needs to appear at the border with
> proof of his citizenship.
>
> If a Canadian citizen even as a dual national applies for a visa it
> will
> be refused.
>
> If a Canadian / Japanese or Canadian /UK dual (like me) applies for a
> visa (god knows why he would) and he hides the fact that he is a
> Canadian, during the background check, it is probable that he will be
> discovered to be a Canadian citizen, and he will be refused a visa.
>
> Remember that they WILL ask what one's status is in Canada to be
> applying for a visa in Canada.
>
> That doesn't STOP him going to the USA as a Canadian though, but it
> will
> cause him difficulties because he will have a record with the BCIS of
> having been refused a visa (they don't record why or any other
> details).
I don't think the consular officer would put this much thought into it.
It wouldn't be fraud because it's not a material fact to the persons
application.
What if the Chinese parents didn't want to get their Canadian born child
a Canadian passport? Canadians need a passport to fly in from the
Eastern Hemisphere. Let's say a Chinese child of Chinese parents born
in Canada wants to get the kid a visa in the Chinese passport because
they don't have or want a Canadian passport, I doubt the consulate would
care. If the parents insisted that they didn't want to anger the
Chinese authorities by getting the child a Canadian passport, I'd wager
that the consulate would just issue the visa. It's an extra $100 and
they'd probably take it.
If that same Chinese child born in Canada presented the passport and
visa to an officer at a landborder and they noticed that the birthplace
was Toronto, then they could admit the child without documentation
because they aren't coming from the Eastern Hemisphere.
I've actually seen a Canadian passport with an F-1 visa in it. No joke.
It was issued in Islamabad and may have been a fluke. I'm not sure why,
but I think it had something to do with the NSEERS program.
I could call a contact at one of the consulates about the
Chinese/Canadian question, but I like to save those calls for things
that really matter.
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