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[172] [173] Special exceptions apply to women who lost citizenship under the Expatriation Act of 1907 by marrying a non-citizen, and to people who lost citizenship through service in Allied armed forces during World War II: such people can obtain special LPR status (under SC-1 and SC-2 visas) and apply for renaturalization without any required ...
The right to renounce Nigerian citizenship is established in May 29 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, which states that "any citizen of Nigeria of full age who wishes to renounce his/her Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation", which the government is obliged to register except when ...
Finally, citizenship can be lost through a variety of other grounds, that are often not clearly voluntary or involuntary. One action that is taken voluntarily (e.g. serving in a foreign military) can lead to a subsequent involuntary loss. [2] Some of these grounds include: Voluntary acquisition of another citizenship
A resident of California, Littlefeather voluntarily relinquished her U.S. citizenship, together with seven other activists, in protest of the U.S. government response to the occupation at Wounded Knee. [224] As the State Department did not respond, it is unknown whether or not Littlefeather's renunciation was valid and binding. N/A December ...
Hannah Kobayashi, who disappeared on November 8 and has since been classified as a “voluntary” missing person, is now believed to have been involved in a green card marriage scam. The FBI is ...
She was able to repatriate upon termination of the marriage and resumption of residence in the United States. [23] While the 1855 Act specified that foreign wives gained U.S. nationality, the law created confusion as to whether it required American women who married aliens to take the nationality of the spouse. [ 24 ]
Had the Biden administration proposal been allowed to move forward, an estimated 500,000 spouses of U.S. citizens and 50,000 stepchildren would have been given three years of legal status.
Mackenzie v. Hare, 239 U.S. 299 (1915), is a United States Supreme Court case that upheld Section 3 of the Expatriation Act of 1907, which dictated that all American women who voluntarily married a foreign alien renounced their American citizenship.