Dual Citizenship

Russia does not allow a child adopted from that country to visit on an American passport with a Russian visa. Families planning to take their adopted child back to Russia for a second adoption or for a birthland visit, who have submitted the whole household's U.S. passports to the Russian Embassy in order to get visas, have had their adopted children's passports returned with a notation that they must use Russian passports. And under U.S. law, you can't enter the U.S. if you don't have either a U.S. passport or an appropriate U.S. visa in your foreign passport. Since it is very difficult to get a U.S. visa as a foreigner, in most cases, you wouldn't even want to TRY to re-enter the U.S. without your American passport. Sharon