On 17/01/04 14:04, in article
64faa06d.0401170604.5db4f60c@posting.google.com, "Stephen Gallagher"
wrote:
> "Singh" wrote in message
> news:<831Ob.177$GV.12@fe2.texas.rr.com>...
>> you cant relinquish US Citizenship even if you want to, then why worry in
>> any other case.??
>>
>
> US citizens can relinquish their citizenship if they
> wish, by going to a US consulate, and completing the
> appropriate forms, and then having those forms accepted
> by a consular officer.
>
> http://travel.state.gov/renunciation.html
>
> On the other hand, parents of a US citizen cannot perform
> any action that would cause the loss of US citizenship
> for their child. So, for instance, a parent of a US citizen
> could not apply to give up his child's US citizenship or
> do any other action that would cause the child to lose
> his or her US citizenship. The child must make that request
> himself, and when the child is under age eighteen, the consular
> officer must be convinced that the child is aware of the
> consequences of renunciation. The State Department will,
> in general, not even consider any request to give up
> citizenship made by a US citizen minor, unless the child
> is at least fourteen years old.
Good answer. In fact, the reasoning is taken even further: the US-born child
of foreign diplomats accredited to the US, not born a citizen, is deemed to
have permanent resident status until "a reasonable time" (probably a couple
of months) after reaching age 18 to allow him/her to return to the USA and
qualify, in due course, for naturalization.
The Canadians do not care which foreign passport is presented, US or other.
(I know this from personal experience.) It is usually easier and possibly
cheaper to travel on whatever passport does not require a visa.
The State Department does not respond quickly to petitions to renounce
nationality. They remember well the Garry Davis and Meyer Kahane cases: in
both, the renouncers later sought to abrogate their renunciations, causing
grief to State and nuisance litigation in the courts.
Davis v. District Director, 481 F. Supp. 1178 (D.D.C. 1979)
Kahane v. Shultz, 653 F. Supp. 1486 (E.D.N.Y. 1987)
Kahane v. Secretary of State, 700 F. Supp. 1162 (D.D.C. 1988)
United States v. Kahane, 396 F. Supp 687 (E.D.N.Y. 1975), modified 527 F.2d
492 (2d Cir. 1975)
I knew a British diplomat, born of British parents in the USA, who had
renounced his US nationality to qualify for a commission in the UK military.
Such renunciations (which would also include people like Roman Zvarych, who
left Yonkers NY (and his professorship at Columbia U) to run for the
Verkhovna Rada in Ukraine) are handled quite differently: they are clearly
not on a whim. Although neither was Kahane's: but he had no way of knowing
his Koch movement would founder.
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