This "could" also pose a problem for you on returning to USA, if you exit on
your US passport but return on your Brazilian passport.  The US system will
showing you leaving but not having ever arrived anywhere ... yet all of a
sudden you have returned to US without an entry stamp!  I would go to the
airport VERY early and explain everything in detail to the US Immigration
officer there, so that there is at least a record with them indicating due
diligence on your part to comply with any or all regulations.

Things change rapidly, of necessity ... rapidly does not necessarily equate
to well thought out.

Regards/Roger, in Bangkok


On 9/6/07, piclist@mmendes.com <piclist@mmendes.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I must use my US passport to enter the US.  However, I can't
> renounce my Brazilian citizenship if I intend to visite family and
> friends there.  The minute I decide to go to Brazil, I need to have a
> valid Brazilian passport, otherwise no entry is allowed.  So it is
> possible to renounce, but only if you're never going to go back there,
> for anything.
>
> -Mario
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of Gerhard Fiedler
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:06 PM
> To: piclist@mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [OT]:: US Non resident taxes
>
>
> piclist@mmendes.com wrote:
>
> > Aparently, no matter what citizenship you have, if your passport says
> you
> > were born in Brazil, you can only go to Brazil with a Brazilian
> > passport.
>
> Actually, in the case of the USA you don't have to be born in the USA.
> Any
> US citizen has to enter the US with his/her US passport, no matter what
> other passport they have. I'm not sure it's a felony if you use a
> different
> one, but it's some sort of illegality.
>
> If you had renounced your Brazilian citizenship (not sure this is
> possible,
> but it probably is), then you wouldn't have had that problem :)
>
> Gerhard
>
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