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I have plans to move to Berlin and Tokyo in the upcoming years, how long does it take to get citizenship there?I currently live in Kansas City Missouri, in the United States of America, and will be moving to New York next month. Also are any great ways to learn new languages?
You can't get citizenship in either country without giving up your US citizenship. I think you mean to say permanent residency? Also, if you live outside of Germany and Japan after gaining permanent residency, you risk losing them.
Elnina, you can only acquire dual citizenship in Germany at birth if at least one of your parents is a German citizen at the time of birth. If neither of your parents are German citizens at the time of birth, OP must give up all other citizenships to gain the German one. Likewise for the Japanese one, Japan does not recognize any kind of dual citizenship.
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Germany - (see above) allows dual citizenship with other EU countries and Switzerland; dual citizenship with other countries is possible with special permission or if obtained at birth; children of non-EU/non-Swiss legal permanent residents can have dual citizenship if born and grown up in Germany (the parents born and grown up abroad must have resided in Germany for at least eight years and must have had the legal-permanent-resident status for at least three years, and usually cannot have dual citizenship themselves).
I'm going to assume OP does not fulfill the requirements for dual citizenship with Germany, so the only option he has is to ask for permission to keep his US passport. Japan does not allow it, period.
Why would anyone want to leave the land of opportunity and get citizenship of another country?
Obamaville
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