Posted by: raju123 May 22, 2017
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Thank you all for your valuable suggestions. These are very insightful.
Meraj: you basically put it very nicely: "One main flaw is if u have stay in Nepal for long time to take care of parents etc , when having citizenship is better. On other hand giving up Nepali citizenship and having property is total gray area. Some time people have more property in Nepal then they can save working entire life in regular jobs."
Giving up properties back in Nepal is not easy. Same is true about maintaining these with US citizenship, not to mention about the gray area of our laws back in Nepal on this. This is even harder if one has plan to move back, let's say, at retirement age or before. Selling these and bringing liquid assets here is not also a good option as 5, 10, or 15 years from now we won't even be able to buy the same properties we had there with all the US asset we have at that time.
Taking care of parents, the very people who not only gave birth to us, raised with the best care they could provide (as we are doing the same to our kids), and helped us become successful on whatever endeavor we pursued is another big item. Things were easy and manageable when we were young and single, or just married, and when the parents are/were on good health. They could visit you or you could visit them as time/work permitted. It never occurred to me about applying for citizenship up until a couple of years ago. But with the passage of time, we gain more responsibilities with kid's life, work, family life and the situation with parents getting older and starting to have health issues. Now the travel back and forth is simply not as easy as before both for ourselves and parents. I am more concerned on how to manage it as they will be needing me to be closer to them in Nepal as days go by. At this moment, I feel more confused than ever on whether to continue with green card which requires me to be in the US for 6 months every year just to maintain it or go for citizenship which give more flexibility on however long I could be elsewhere (as many of my colleagues did without even having a second thought).
Meraj: you basically put it very nicely: "One main flaw is if u have stay in Nepal for long time to take care of parents etc , when having citizenship is better. On other hand giving up Nepali citizenship and having property is total gray area. Some time people have more property in Nepal then they can save working entire life in regular jobs."
Giving up properties back in Nepal is not easy. Same is true about maintaining these with US citizenship, not to mention about the gray area of our laws back in Nepal on this. This is even harder if one has plan to move back, let's say, at retirement age or before. Selling these and bringing liquid assets here is not also a good option as 5, 10, or 15 years from now we won't even be able to buy the same properties we had there with all the US asset we have at that time.
Taking care of parents, the very people who not only gave birth to us, raised with the best care they could provide (as we are doing the same to our kids), and helped us become successful on whatever endeavor we pursued is another big item. Things were easy and manageable when we were young and single, or just married, and when the parents are/were on good health. They could visit you or you could visit them as time/work permitted. It never occurred to me about applying for citizenship up until a couple of years ago. But with the passage of time, we gain more responsibilities with kid's life, work, family life and the situation with parents getting older and starting to have health issues. Now the travel back and forth is simply not as easy as before both for ourselves and parents. I am more concerned on how to manage it as they will be needing me to be closer to them in Nepal as days go by. At this moment, I feel more confused than ever on whether to continue with green card which requires me to be in the US for 6 months every year just to maintain it or go for citizenship which give more flexibility on however long I could be elsewhere (as many of my colleagues did without even having a second thought).
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