In misc.legal.moderated, on Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:34:31 -0800 (PST),
Jethro_uk <
jeth...@hotmailbin.com> wrote:
>I note that Boris Johnson, the UKs comedy prime minister, renounced his
>US citizenship that was acquired by right of his being born in NY.
>
>That being said, have such renunciations been tested in court ?
>
>The amendment that gave him citizenship still stands, so the facts that
>provided for him to be a citizen haven't changed, so is there a case for
>saying the process of renunciation is open to legal challenge up to
>SCOTUS ?
The trend in US law has been going the other direction. It used to be
they'd take away someone's citizenship for iirc several sorts of things.
The ones I remember were accepting citizenship in another country, or
even if not a citizen, serving in another country's military, because
people who did that would swear allegiance to the country. Israel had a
lot of volunteers from the US and I think their system was like that but
because of American law they changed it so that a foreigner could serve
without swearing alllegiance to anything, almost just by showing up. (He
probably had to say something, like "i'll do my best" ;-) .
I used to think some Israel case was the stimulus for the law in the US
changing, but I was wrong. But now, nothing one does can cost him his
citizenship except actively renouncing it in person before an officer of
the Department of State. (You can find them in embassies around the
world.)
Now that Johnson has done that, I don't think they'll let him retract
it.
But could he marry an American and get a green card, and then after 5
years become a citizen again.
Could he move to a country in turmoil and then come here as a refugee?
Do we have any special arrangements like we used to have with Cuba?
Before 2014 or so, could he have moved to Cuba, become a Cuban citizen,
and then fled Cuba and enter the US under wet feet, dry feet, with dry
feet of course, and be eligible for citizenship?
Could he join the US military? Several years of honroable service there
is usually a help to getting citizenship.
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I think you can tell, but just to be sure:
I am not a lawyer.