dual citizenship

[massacarrara]

Hi all.

I was born in the USA, but my father was born in Iran. According to Iranian government, this makes me automatically an Iranian citizen, thus I have two passports. Should I photocopy my Iranian passport and birth certificate and send it along with my American passport and birth certificate?

Thanks so much

[thaiguy]

How can you have birth certificates from two countries?

To answer your question, yes, you should photocopy all of your documents.

[massacarrara]

Iran requires me to have a birth certificate from their country in order to me to have a passport. It's not a "real birth cerificate" per-se. It says I was born in the USA and blah blah--basically I need it in order to have my Iranian passport.

[thaiguy]

That's funny.  You are automatically a citizen because of your father.  But they won't let you have a passport unless you get a birth certificate - which they kind of force of you because of your father.

Oh well .. I guess it's not for me to understand.

:-)