Wayne Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:<[log in to unmask]>...
> My wife was born in Canada, but both her parents were U.S. citizens.  They were
> told that she would have dual citizenship until she voted in an election in one
> of the countries;

At one time, the US had a restriction against
voting in foreign elections, and doing so normally
did cause loss of US citizenship.  But that law was
declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court case of
of Afroyim v. Rusk in 1967.  Voting in a foreign
election does not cause loss of US citizenship.

> at that time, she would lose her citizenship in the other
> country.

Canada's nationality laws do not cause loss of citizenship
by voting in foreign elections.

> Assuming that was correct, she lost her Canadian citizenship in the
> 1980 U.S. Presidential election.

Voting in a US election in 1980 would not have caused
your wife to lose her Canadian citizenship.  She is
most probably, still both a Canadian and a US citizen.

Stephen Gallagher

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