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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]
The form is prescribed by the Secretary of State under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. [ 1 ] A CLN is used only to document a loss of U.S. nationality and it does not affect the loss of U.S. nationality itself.
Each country sets its own policies for formal renunciation of citizenship. There is a common concern that individuals about to relinquish their citizenship do not become a stateless person, and many countries require evidence of another citizenship or an official promise to grant citizenship before they release that person from citizenship ...
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 ...
Getty Images More Americans are deciding that they'd rather give up their citizenship than pay more taxes. The Wall Street Journal reports that 2013 has already set a new record for "expatriations ...
The American Bar Association's Taxation Section believes 26 U.S.C. § 6039G should be read not to require persons whose loss of citizenship occurred before the passage of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 to file the exit tax form (Form 8854), and has urged the issuance of Treasury regulations clarifying this interpretation. [19]
Americans who live overseas have been renouncing their US citizenship in record numbers over the past several years. In 2014, nearly 3,500 people bid a permanent adieu to the states, and the year ...
Inside the long-awaited package, six pages of government paperwork dryly affirmed Carol Tapanila's anxious request. But when Tapanila slipped the contents from the brown envelope, she saw there ...