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The State Department warns that "severe hardship" could result to individuals making themselves stateless, that even those with permanent residence in their country "could encounter difficulties continuing to reside there without a nationality", and that a foreign country might deport stateless ex-U.S. citizens back to the United States.
Stateless: 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
The Foreign Affairs Manual instructs State Department employees to make it clear to Americans who will become stateless after renunciation that they may face extreme difficulties (including deportation back to the United States) following their renunciation, but to afford such persons their right to give up citizenship. [167]
The State Department estimates 5,986 renunciants and 559 relinquishers during FY2015. [38] Renunciations rose to a record of 6,707 in 2020, up 237% from the year before. [39] Since 1998, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has also maintained its own list of people who have renounced citizenship under .
Countries may have legal provisions to prevent the loss of citizenship, particularly where the loss would make the person stateless. These provisions often stem from international treaties that prevent governments from making people stateless, as well as limiting individual's ability to voluntarily make themselves stateless. [5]
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United States Department of State (721 F. Supp. 243, N.C. Cal 1989) confirmed that a child born abroad prior to 1934 to a U.S.-born woman could obtain derivative nationality. As the case was not a class-action lawsuit, it did not impact others in similar situations; [ 64 ] however, the 1993 ruling in Wauchope v.
Admonition of States to show sympathy to stateless seaman regularly engaged on ships of that State's flag. Article 12: Personal status (e.g. marital status) of a stateless person to be governed by the law of his/her domicile ahead of the law of his/her residence. Article 13: Rights to property to be no less than accorded to aliens generally ...