How to Use dual citizenship in a Sentence

dual citizenship

noun
  • Porter holds dual citizenship for the U.S. and Great Britain.
    Mia Berry, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2021
  • The defendants hold dual citizenship in the U.S. and Egypt, court records show.
    Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2021
  • While based in New York City, his wife is Swedish and their daughters have dual citizenship in the two countries.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 25 July 2023
  • Has dual citizenship in the United States and the Bahamas.
    CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The league boasts the best players in Europe as well as players with dual citizenship.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Guadalupe is the youngest of the group, a 16-year-old with dual citizenship who has featured for the Peruvian youth national teams.
    Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Beau has dual citizenship in Italy and family there, and one of our first—and best—trips together was to the country.
    Stassi Schroeder, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Many of the church's members were born in Mexico and thus have dual citizenship.
    CBS News, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Williams was born with dual citizenship between the United States and France, where her mother is from.
    Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The star has since obtained dual citizenship, the New York Times reported in 2018.
    Melissa Roberto, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The sisters have dual citizenship with the United States and Nigeria.
    Doug Feinberg, Chron, 15 July 2021
  • The brothers, who have British and American dual citizenship, were moved to house arrest in March.
    Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • Lincer holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Poland and plays for Poland, her father’s native country.
    Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2022
  • The sisters' parents were born in Nigeria and the sisters have dual citizenship.
    Jill Martin, CNN, 20 July 2021
  • The younger Nwora has dual citizenship, which allows him to play for Nigeria.
    Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 11 June 2018
  • Avendano has dual citizenship, and his wife is a citizen of the United States.
    Kaiser Health News, oregonlive.com, 27 July 2019
  • Born in Miami to a well-to-do Nicaraguan family, Tercero held dual citizenship and was raised in Nicaragua.
    Judy Rybak, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2020
  • All three had obtained dual citizenship in Georgia and the United States.
    Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2018
  • Poitier, who holds dual citizenship in the U.S. acted as ambassador from afar as the Bahamas did not have an embassy in Japan.
    NBC News, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But brace yourself: The process of obtaining dual citizenship can be quite tedious, fraught with red tape and byzantine rules.
    Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2021
  • My father was against the green card and, on principle, dual citizenship.
    Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • Rivals made Oz’s dual citizenship in Turkey an issue in the race.
    Marc Levy, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
  • Many members were born in Mexico and have dual citizenship. While some of the splinter groups were once polygamous, many no longer are.
    Mark Stevenson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Nwora has dual citizenship with Nigeria and his father, Alex Nwora, is the head coach of the Nigerian team.
    The Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Messing is a 30-year-old with dual citizenship who lives and trains in Anchorage and competes for Canada.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The children also have dual citizenship and grew up speaking some Italian at home.
    Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Other countries did not address the issue of dual citizenship in their laws.
    Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Quartz Africa, 2 July 2020
  • As a result, some World Cup athletes have dual citizenship in the U.S. and another nation.
    Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
  • His own family, who have dual citizenship because his wife is from the Maldives, managed to leave earlier in the war.
    Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
  • After some issues, her father, who holds dual citizenship in Ukraine and Nigeria, was allowed to cross.
    Aaron Falk, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Mar. 2022

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