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The lawsuit follows a State Department proposal to lower the required fee for renouncing U.S. citizenship.
Under Department of Energy guidelines, an action that shows allegiance to a country other than the United States, such as a declaration of intent to renounce U.S. citizenship or actual renunciation of citizenship, demonstrates foreign preference and thus is a ground to deny a security clearance. [186]
Laurence Terrazas was born in the United States in 1947. [3] Because Terrazas's father was Mexican and because Mexico's citizenship laws then followed the principle of jus sanguinis, Terrazas held Mexican citizenship at birth and because he was born in the United States, Terrazas also held US citizenship under the jus soli of the Fourteenth Amendment; therefore, Terrazas was a dual citizen of ...
Eventually, his belief in liberation theology would lead him to naturalize as a Honduran citizen in September 1974 and then renounce U.S. citizenship as a gesture of support for landless peasants and a measure of protest against the United States' influence in the country. Despite his naturalization, he was deported from the country in 1979 ...
Renouncing U.S. citizenship can reduce the administrative burden for Americans living abroad—at a cost. ... and pay the $2,350 fee (the State Department recently announced that will drop to $450 ...
The Renunciation Act of 1944 (Public Law 78-405, 58 Stat. 677) was an act of the 78th Congress regarding the renunciation of United States citizenship.Prior to the law's passage, it was not possible to lose U.S. citizenship while in U.S. territory except by conviction for treason; the Renunciation Act allowed people physically present in the U.S. to renounce citizenship when the country was in ...
Michael G. Pfeifer of Caplin & Drysdale states that it is unclear whether the Reed Amendment is intended to apply to all persons "relinquishing" U.S. citizenship by committing an "expatriating act" with the intention of losing U.S. citizenship (all the acts listed in , including (1) obtaining nationality in a foreign country, (2) swearing ...
Hiroshi Motomura, a scholar of immigration and citizenship at University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, said a Supreme Court reversal of the 1898 birthright citizenship ruling would be ...