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Accidental birth in a non Schengen country. What next?
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It seems like many (most?) countries don't like/recognize dual citizenship. The way it ends up working is that each country doesn't have the power to tell the other country that someone isn't a citizen. Each country just enforces it's own citizenship within it's borders. If you had US/Netherlands citizenship, and use a Dutch passport to try to enter the US, you will probably get yelled at by customs if they realize that you are a US citizen. They can't stop you from entering the US but they can hold you for a while and pester you.
If you have a US citizenship but live in another country, most of your income will be exempt from US taxes (unless you are a millionaire, in which case you probably aren't paying many taxes anyway).
A similar thing happens with countries that have mandatory military or civil service; you can be required to travel back to serve.
The US actually requires that you pay taxes to the US based on your income in the foreign country unless they approve of you being exempt.
The first $120k is exempt, though, so unless you are bringing almost $1/4 million a year, the majority is not taxed.
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-earned-income-exclusion
There's also tax treaties that can make things more convoluted.
The Netherlands is especially anal about dual Citizenship. When you gain dutch citizenship, you must give up all others, and the when you gain other citizenship, you must give up the Dutch one.
The only way to be a Dutch dual citizen is to be from a place that won't let you give up citizenship (Turkey is famous for it here), or to be born to parents with different citizenships. (Or to get grandfathered in from before the laws got this strict)
I think you also get to keep it if you get citizenship through marriage
This is what I know for a regular residents outside their home country. Did exactly this with my son. And also know it took us months to get him a passport so we could travel abroad. Must be a nightmare to have prolonged vacation from a week to few months.
Same with my country. Here kids get the citizenship of their parents - if one is let’s say Brasilian and one is Japanese, the kid is both and has to decide once 18 y/o or get the Austrian citizenship. If this kid is born in America, it has 3 citizenships, since by American law every person born within their borders is American.