Little-Known Federal Software Can Trigger Revocation of Citizenship
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But any point they can just take it away. WTF
You would be absolutely fucked if that happened.. what would you even do? go float in the ocean or something?
It's generally only possible if you're an immigrant. (The story mentions immigrants)
If you're a native born US citizen, the US Supreme Court has said it's not possible for the govt to take away your citizenship for a crime. But you can renounce it yourself or go join a foreign country and fight against the USA and lose it that way.
Not true. If you’re an idiot, you can renounce citizenship and render yourself stateless.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
One of the requirements is to appear in front of a US consulate in a foreign country, so you're right - you'd have to be an absolute idiot.
The paperwork you file as an American abroad for obtaining citizenship (jus sanguinis) through Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) has gotten more difficult over the years (it appears intentional) to trip up fallacious filings by making more mistakes. My most “favorite” memory: being stuck in a consular room at the embassy with my cellphone confiscated and being forced to enumerate all time intervals I was in the United States ever (lived or traveled into or via) for my entire life down to exact date accuracy for CRBA. Try doing that if — pre-pandemic — you had a lot of regular business travel.
The USA¹ revokes lives in any place they wish — citizenship? Puh.
¹As do other nationstates, so we can just skip over all of that.
For the last twelve years, the DOJ prosecuted, on average, twenty individual cases annually to revoke naturalization, from fewer than a thousand leads. If the real argument here is that we shouldn't revoke citizenship, I'm amenable to that, but this doesn't seem a totally unreasonable approach to tracking down such a rare problem.