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On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 06:53:57PM -0300, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Peter Todd wrote:
> 
> > Another thought is surely the many people with US citizenship through
> > mearly being born there or a US parent aren't paying taxes. I mean, I
> > have Australian citizenship through my mom, but was born in Canada, I'd
> > be rather annoyed if Australia wanted me to start filing tax returns.
> 
> You can be lucky that Australia doesn't have a draft :) 
> 
> I know people in your situation (a 2nd citizenship through parents or
> birthplace) who had to give up the other citizenship at around 18, or else
> they would have to do military service in that country. 

Heck, while at a hostel this summer I met a girl from Isreal who
couldn't actually return just yet, because technically she would have
gone to jail for missing her service, but she said it was just a minor
buracratic mixup with her deferrment forms. She did say her applying to
immigrate to Canada was making it much more complex though.

But the weirdest was another guy I met who was simply
travelling for a few months around the US and Canada, and who's home
country (somewhere in the middle east, forget which one exactly, Jordan? he
said it was a near miracle he got a visa in the first place) had threatened 
to take his citizenship away due to him missing military service, except, 
he didn't have duel citizenship... They just *assumed* he was going try to 
immigrate!

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