British Expatriate Network

I am going to apply for US citizenship next month, but I will not apply for dual citizonship. After this, my British Passport will not be valid anymore. Now, I have a valid Visa for China in British Passport. What should I do? Shall I transfer Visa, or could I carry both Passports?

I am planning to go to China next summer (June, 2008). Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thank you in advance.

if you dont surrender it to the british authorities your UK passport WILL STILL BE VALID .....

Just use the US passport when you are physically in the US and use the EU one when you get to China. You're very unlikely to have a US passport by then anyway. It takes time for your interview, then the swearing in, then you have to apply for the US passport and wait for that. Considering you had to apply for a visa for china in advance, it makes sense that you can't get it put in the passport you don't have.

No worries, you'll be fine.

You wouldn't need to 'apply' for dual citizenship - once you get US, it would be basically automatic.

I applied for US citizenship at the end of July and have so far been fingerprinted and am waiting to be called for interview/testing. Supposedly this will happen sometime in January or February.

It seems to me you have done very little research about obtaining citizenship and should perhaps poke around before you take the plunge. I'm assuming you're doing it because you married an American? How long have you been here?

Asking questions here is a good start, but the questions you ask make me concerned that you actually know very little about the path ahead. I would want to know more than that before I took citizenship.

Anyhoo, the advice above is good, here is a summary.

1) You do no "apply" for dual citizenship. You automatically become one when you become American. You need to renounce your British citizenship at the embassy or wherever and hand in your passport to stop being British, and even then, they'll probably take you back later if you asked nicely.
2) Of course your British passport will remain valid.
3) Use your American Passport when entering and leaving the US, use your EU one in the EU and China.
4) Carry both passports. Is it possible to transfer a Chinese visa from a British passport to an American one? It seems highly unlikely
5) Citizenship takes a long time. Passports are not terribly quick these days either -particularly in the late spring. I would expect to still be travelling on your Brit passport then.

good luck with it all.