His Swissness
In case Small Boy's Swissness ever comes into question, in case the national ID card and Swiss passport aren't enough, I can always just point to his diet. I swear, if it used to oink or moo, that kid will eat it.
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The Xpat Files
I'm American. He's Swiss. The Boys are a bit of both. Dispatches from the far side of the Röstigraben. With a little cycling on the side.
Friday, March 31, 2006
About Me
- Name: swissmiss
- Location: Switzerland
An American in Switzerland. Getting Swisser all the time.
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4 Comments:
have you managed to get a USA passport for him? If so, will he have to choose one or the other at a certain age?
J - I'm with the understanding you can get dual - how else would some of my friends be that way? dual - US-CH passports...
Hmm - sounds like very good eats. Mind you that I think the milk and other foods from a pig in Switzerland taste much better than they do in Canada or the US.
J - he's got both passports. I had to jump through some hoops to get him the US one since he was born abroad - I blogged it in an early post back last August (How to get your child a US passport in 111 easy steps) - but we got him both. As far as things stand now he can keep both. Of course, being a boy, this means he'll have to register for the draft in the US and do his boot camp in Switzerland. If he were to actually get drafted and have to serve in the US army I'm not sure what would happen because there is a Swiss law prohibiting Swiss from serving in a foreign army (blue helmets excepted); R. thinks there is an exception for dual citizens. Frankly, if he gets drafted into the US army we're going to hide him in the cellar anyway, so it's not really an issue. And I think the International Olympic Committee has some issues with dual citizen athletes; you might have to choose. Yeah, I'm really worried about that, too. When sausage throwing becomes an Olympic sport, then I'll worry.
Oh, expat, I'm not sure - I miss good old fatty US bacon!
When sausage throwing becomes an Olympic sport, then I'll worry.
LOL! It may be different in Switzerland but my kids have dual citizenship here in Germany and can keep both passports forever.
I have no idea how things work with military service though. I believe it has something to do with residence - if you're in the particular country at the right age to do military service, you have to do it, BUT, long, long ago I thought I saw a blurb about dual U.S./German citizensh not being required to do service because they'd essentially be "fighting" for the other side, and that's not allowed. Or something. Who knows? I'm not really worrying about it now.
I've got one kid who loooves his pork, beef etc and another who'll barely touch meat at all.
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