Why it must cost over $2,000 to give up something that others spend much more trying to acquire is a total mystery. Surely it does not cost $2,000 to make a note of someone’s ex-citizenship.
Source: https://www.wien.gv.at/amtshelfer/dokumente/urkunden/staatsb...
The only one I can think of, is to aquire a different citizenship that doesn't allow dual citizens (like China). Although even then, the guidance on the British government site suggests they will go along with whatever crap China wants (like destroying a British passport) but allow keeping British citizenship, issuing a new passport afterwards, if requested to.
And then, well, someone times people renounce because they don't live there and they don't agree with the policies of that country.
Because the British State conferred British Citizenship onto this person upon merely being born in Northern Ireland, despite this person identifying solely as Irish, they were unable to avail of this scheme.
The UK Home Office told this person to renounce their citizenship if they wished to available of this scheme. (This was all basically nullified by the EU Settlement Scheme coming up to Brexit, but it'll probably rear it's head again)
TL;DR Dual National wanted to avail of an EU Scheme, which was unable to be used by a British Citizen. One solution was to renounce British Citizenship.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/explainer...
You may think politicians don't give a shit about voters, but they give even less of a shit about non-voters. Just look at the treatment of illegal immigrants or Iraqi civilians.
Anyone giving up their citizenship will be unable to vote at the next election - making them a non-voter. As such, in the eyes of senators they're no more important than the people that Academi mercenaries kill with impunity. Charging them $2000 is nothing.
Of course. Still, doesn’t renunciation of US citizenship actually require an act of Congress annually, under which all recent applicants are included? That the price was jacked up to $2000 is outright exploitation of desperate people, but certainly there would be some administrative fee (like the earlier one, which was generally considered reasonable) to cover the chain of people from your local US consulate to those congressional staff.
No. At least, none that I've heard of, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relinquishment_of_United_State... makes no mention of it.
There is a quarterly publication of those who have renounced citzenship - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterly_Publication_of_Indiv... . But that appears to have been put into place mostly to try to shame rich people who expatriated, under an invalid idea that most renunciations were from rich people trying to avoid paying US taxes.
That's strangely absurd! Also wouldn't it be a bill of attainder (thus against the Constitution)?
Similar procedure is used to confirm people to federally appointed positions or allow individuals expidited paths to US citizenship.
Bills of attainer seems to refer solely to acts that render a person guilty and punish them outside of normal jurisprudence.
Of course, that would probably result in the end of it being acquired by birth ...