Immigration

I've discovered that I may be able to get Australian citizenship in a few years if follow certain steps. I was not aware that this was a possibility, so I am going to look into it. If I do this, I can have dual US/AU citizenship with passports from both countries. The US recently allowed dual citizenship; they used not to. The benefit of my getting dual citizenship is that it would allow me to live and work in the US, Australia, and New Zealand whenever I wanted to for the rest of my life. In addition, since Oz is still part of the British Commonwealth, it would make it far easier for me to get a visa to work in England, Canada, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, or any of the Commonwealth countries.

At the Christmas party my pimp agency threw at a local pub I met a Canadian working here that filled me in with a lot of details. One of the catches is that you can not leave Australia for one year within a 4 year period. He doesn't understand why, but it might have something to do with the Aussie gov't wanting to see how serious you are. Unlike other countries, the Australians check and stamp your passport when you depart the country. They are so paranoid here.