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Originally Posted by issybird
I was curious, so I looked it up. It turns out Mel holds dual US/Irish citizenship and has never been Australian nor applied for citizenship. Shame, because I was on board with Hamlet53's proposal, but I guess we can't deport him after all.
Mel claimed Irish citizenship through his mother who was Irish and the family was able to emigrate to Oz because his father's mother was Australian.
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If you have an Irish Grandparent then you can claim Irish citizenship which does not require an oath of allegiance and thus allows you to have dual nationality. Another way was to marry an Irish citizen but I believe this in no longer the case owing to a proliferation of marriages between immigrants and Irish citizens for the purpose of claiming State services. Both of my daughters have dual citizenship. They are Irish by virtue of the fact that my wife is an Irish national and American because I registered them as American Citizens born abroad.