> • You must hold citizenship of another country, so you don’t become stateless.
This is not actually true for the US. The United States will let you renounce your citizenship even if it leaves you stateless.
This is not actually true for the US. The United States will let you renounce your citizenship even if it leaves you stateless.
I wonder if this opens up pathways to citizenship that aren't available otherwise. The "passports for sale" are mostly either extremely expensive or for tiny island nations like St. Kitts. But maybe there are additional countries that offer citizenship to stateless people out of compassion?
Absolutely fucking not.
But if you really, really, I mean, really want to stateless yourself and end up in a situation where you can’t even get a travel document, you can.
Not that anyone ever should.
> Perhaps there are countries that will grant citizenship to stateless people out of compassion, or for a fee?
Not that I’m aware of.
> Persons intending to renounce U.S. citizenship should be aware that, unless they already possess a foreign nationality, they may be rendered stateless and, thus, lack the protection of any government. They may also have difficulty traveling as they may not be entitled to a passport from any country.
This guy did it in 2008.
> Stateless people, when officially registered as 'stateless', can apply for naturalisation after three years' legal stay, which is reduced from the standard five years. They are also exempt from providing a passport, but they do need to provide a birth certificate.