@happymomof1 - I already sent an email to my contact at the Portuguese Consulate to see if it’s possible. At the very least, I read an old post noting that while it wouldn’t necessarily be a pro/con for college admission, that it counts in college stats and they like to show high numbers of international/dual-citizen students 
Couldn’t hurt.
This is certainly something my spouse and I discussed before marriage. Probably because we’re part of the generation drowning in college debt just to go to our state schools.
Definitely something for people to think about BEFORE they marry. Good advice to anyone reading for either themselves or their kids.
I did not read the whole thread. I think you should ask him to shop for a sport car now to make him happy first. Then you will talk about college money. And get him involved with your kids’ school activities. Let him see your kids’ aspirations. Let him meet parents who send kids to college. Hopefully he will change his mind when he sees those. Show and do not tell.
However the EU has really high unemployment. The EU residents we know, the kids get a three year degree and
then the parents pay for a masters degree, and its very expensive for the masters degree over there ! Bachelors level students get NO JOBS over there. I know both a dual German-French citizen in Germany and a Czech citizen and both girls had the same thing happen. So the girl we know in Germany, went to school in Holland, got a three year business oriented degree and was completely unemployable ! Then girl got a masters in Barcelona and got a job finally. Jobs are hard to find in Europe. English is spoken in some but not all countries. Does the OP’s child speak French, German, Spanish or Portuguese, he/she may feel more comfortable in Europe being bilingual. I don’t think that its that easy without being at least bilingual to work in Europe.
The US has a must stronger job market, a much better undergraduate four year degree and I see no reason to go to Europe, it just does not pay off in the long run for a US citizen to get a degree over there, and it will be hard to get any job except teaching in an international school. Those international school teaching positions do pay well.
Its not really easy to up and go to Europe. Its not a nirvana, given the high unemployment either.
Another who says yes a will is good but if your situaton is pretty much you’ve been married a long time, everything you guys have you got together, and not divorced or anyother kids or anyone you want to disinherit etc., often the state statutes do essentially what most people would do…all to surviving spouse and then, after he dies, on hers if she doesn’t have a will to be evenly divided by the kids of the marriage. If you have big family gifts from one of your parents or an inheritence that can muck things up a bit. Check it out for yourself in your state statutes and then at least you will know. And, caveat, some states are wierd.
When my mother-in-law (long married, with three fully grown kids) died without a will in Pennsylvania, the state laws mandated half to my father-in-law and the other half divided among the three kids. With two homes owned, this required all sorts of legal work (appraisals, then my FIL had to deed 1/6 of each home to each of the kids, and give a “payout” for the liquid investments). Not a fun process, with complicated tax returns for all, and certainly not what anyone would have chosen to have happen. MAKE A WILL!