Never heard of extradition for civil judgements. The thought sent a chill up my spine. I do know -- from a friend -- that the US and some other countries have signed a treaty for reciprocal enforcement of child support.

Extradited for debt? I don't think so - I think it has to be criminal (but IANAL).

There are countries that don't have extradition treaties with the US for anything, though many of them are places you might not want to live...

I am not an American, nor have I ever dealt with the American court system. However, extradition is, to the best of my knowledge, only used in serious criminal cases, and not used at all to enforce a civil judgement (which suing would be).

Wikipedia also has a list of countries that the United States doesn't have an extradition treaty with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_United_.... Most of those don't look like great options, but a few of them are quite nice!

They would only be able to seize assets you might have left in the US. Extradition is only for criminal cases.

Whether or not a country will assist at all in enforcing a civil judgment from a foreign jurisdiction is a matter to be explicitly spelled out in treaty agreements.

Your best bet for avoiding a civil judgment is probably to just be too difficult for a process server to find to serve you with the complaint and summons, or failing that, to make a special appearance to assert lack of jurisdiction before making your answer.

IANAL. While I'm not particularly inclined to offer helpful advice to those who would try to skip out on valid debts, I am even less inclined to allow the typical institutional lender or debt collector to go about their business as usual and win by default.

Extradition?! Of course not. Extradition is for criminals. A judgment on a debt is in civil court.

Not extradite but I imagine they may ask the local courts to enforce debt collection based on the civil judgement in the US. I've heard there are agreements with other countries to collect child support so it isn't a stretch to believe they may help collect other debts through the local court system.

Citizenship does not really work that way. I suspect your 'friend' was exaggerating things somewhat!

He would have been granted whatever citizenship his mother had, by that country, since he lived there while growing up. Any rights or penalties associated with the US citizenship would only come into play if he actively sought them out, having first gone to a US embassy and explicitly obtained citizenship for himself. Generally the only reason to do that is if one intends to move to and live in the USA.