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Vote to End Deadline for Dual Nationality

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From Times Wire Reports

Mexico’s Senate has passed a measure to eliminate a deadline for Mexicans living abroad to regain their Mexican citizenship and allow them to apply indefinitely for dual nationality.

A 1998 constitutional amendment allowed five years for Mexicans who had adopted another country’s citizenship to apply to regain their Mexican passports as dual nationals. That five-year deadline expired March 20, and only 67,000 people had applied.

According to U.S. census data, about 1.6 million people born in Mexico have secured American citizenship.

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