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Relinquishment of United States nationality; Long title: Section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952: Loss of nationality by native-born or naturalized citizen; voluntary action; burden of proof; presumptions
Jus soli ("right of the soil") is citizenship by birth in the United States, whereas jus sanguinis ("right of blood") here refers to citizenship through birth abroad to an American parent. Federal policy towards U.S. citizens who naturalize in foreign countries has varied over the years.
Failure to reaffirm one's citizenship by a certain age (often an age between 18 and 30 years old) Failure to revoke other citizenships by a certain age (e.g. 22 years old in the case of Japan) Such loss of citizenship may take place without the knowledge of the affected citizen, and indeed without the knowledge of the government.
Although renunciation may be the most commonly used term when referring to loss of US nationality, renunciation is only one of the seven expatriating acts that may be performed voluntarily and with the intent to relinquish US nationality stated in section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. § 1481). [27]
The ruling meant that mothers were able to pass on their nationality at the birth of an illegitimate child born abroad, if the mother had lived for a continuous period of one year prior to the child's birth in the United States or a U.S. territory. [70]
A 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upheld a protestor's right to burn the American flag, but President-elect Trump might want to change that.
The Certificate of Loss of Nationality of the United States (CLN) is form DS-4083 of the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the United States Department of State which is completed by a consular official of the United States documenting relinquishment of United States nationality. The form is prescribed by the Secretary of State under the ...
You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807051429. OCLC 1164826057. Nackenoff, Carol (2021). American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship (First/Unabridged ed.). Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 9780700631926.