Proposing Marriage to Save Citizenship (with a twist)

Here’s a wonderful little vignette from the NYT: Proposing Marriage to Save Citizenship. The twist? It’s the story of a U.S. citizen looking to secure Dutch citizenship in order to stay in the same country as his two children. An immigration official told him he’d have to give up his U.S. citizenship if he wanted to become a Dutch national. Unless he married a Dutch national. And so the author proposed to his then-girlfriend in a cubicle of a government administrator.

That twist just might make this a fabulous reading assignment for students.

-KitJ