Thank you. Sorry it was in the wrong thread. Apologies.
As for Meghan, I can't imagine she stays a US citizen. I think that is more hassle than it is worth overall especially where taxes are concerned. I just wonder more how it affects their future children because seems it will be a good chance they will be dual citizens if the plan is to have her go the normal route like everyone else which honestly surprises me.
I kind of feel like they are going to have to stick to whatever their decision is. Either she gets a sped up British Citizenship, or she goes about citizenship in the normal time frame. They announced that she was pursuing British Citizenship and would be following normal protocol. Now they could change that, but I think that might invite backlash. It would have just been easier to say upfront, that Meghan is a special/unique case so her process would be expedited. Just get the uproar out of the way. They didn't. So that leads me to believe they've thought through all the implications and they are serious about her going about citizenship the regular way. I just don't believe they haven't thought this through.But there are a lot of moving parts so things could change.
What we do know is she can't give up her US citizenship, until she is a British citizen, because a person can't be stateless. So if her American Citizenship becomes some huge problem, the only way to fix it, is to make her a British Citizen.
Replying to these together because they're to do with the same thing.
This is what I think is happening here:
1. I'm not sure if Meghan is entirely decided on retaining or renouncing her US citizenship; there has been a vagueness about her plans regarding that, which make me think she hasn't decided. It might be that she wants to keep her citizenship, but is also unsure of what problems that doing so will create, or it might be that she's not entirely sure yet.
2. Given the current political situation in the UK, I actually think it's very smart of them to announce that Meghan is going about getting her citizenship through the regular process. The British public is lukewarm to her as it is, her skipping to the head of the citizenship line isn't going to make them any friends at this stage in the game.
3. That said, if next year Meghan's citizenship creates a tax issue - how much do you think the British public is going to like a British Royal having to pay US taxes - then they could in all possibility go "in the interest of keeping British funds in Britain, Meghan's citizenship is being expedited and she will be giving up her US citizenship." I only think that'll happen if the taxes becomes an issue to the British public; if it doesn't, then I think she'll stick with the slow path.
4. I don't think they're going to worry about the citizenship of any future children until Meghan's actually pregnant. We don't know what timeline they're going to want to start having a family in, and we also don't know how quickly they'll be able to conceive once they start trying. It could very well be that 5 years down the line they won't have children yet, and thus Meghan's citizenship never becomes an issue. Or it could be that this time next year they could be expecting their first child and are facing backlash because of that child's potential citizenship, in which case they go "in the interest of keeping the British Royal Family British, Meghan's citizenship is being expedited and she will be giving up her US citizenship."
They don't gain anything by expediting her citizenship from the get go - it's just going to aggravate the public and be seen as the BRF being above the rules. But, if they say they're going to follow the rules at the start, then change that when the public start getting upset by what that entails, they can go "well, we tried, but were pushed into breaking the rules by the public."