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Why do I have to renounce my citizenship when I never announced it?
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ki4jgt feddit.org ki4jgt@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-07-30
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I didn't subscribe to this place. Why must I unsubscribe?

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disregardable lemmy.zip disregardable@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-12-26
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You inherited it by birth. It's more of an issue of, under international law, a country cannot make someone stateless. Everyone is entitled to a community and a place to live. When you're a brand new person, we need to establish where that place is. If you want to change it, it's on you to change it.

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lntl lemmy.ml lntl@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-04
#3 · Quote Reply

Don't give em any ideas

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einkorn feddit.org einkorn@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-21
#4 · Quote Reply

Don't give em any ideas

Oh, "they" already have them. Be it MAGA in the US questioning citizenship by birth or here in Germany the AFD which plans to strip it from people they do not considere German enough.

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Malica lemmy.zip Malica@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-27
#5 · Quote Reply

You gotta pay for it too

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UltraGiGaGigantic lemmy.ml UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-08-23
#6 · Quote Reply

You inherited it by birth. It's more of an issue of, under international law, a country cannot make someone stateless. Everyone is entitled to a community and a place to live. When you're a brand new person, we need to establish where that place is. If you want to change it, it's on you to change it.

Everyone is entitled to a community and a place to live.

Source?

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UltraGiGaGigantic lemmy.ml UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-08-23
#7 · Quote Reply

Because nation states are all about the nation state, not the people imprisoned within them.

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degen midwest.social degen@midwest.social
Joined: 2023-06-15
#8 · Quote Reply

You gotta pay for it too

Careful now

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CrocodilloBombardino piefed.social the_abecedarian@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-04-07
#9 · Quote Reply

so you expect babies to be born stateless? do you think that would work out well for everyone?

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Azura The Spellkissed lemmy.blahaj.zone AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-03-30
#10 · Quote Reply

Not even sure which place you're taking about or why you have to renounce citizenship.

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disregardable lemmy.zip disregardable@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-12-26
#11 · Quote Reply

Everyone is entitled to a community and a place to live. Source?

https://www.unhcr.org/media/1961-convention-reduction-statelessness

A Contracting State shall grant its nationality to a person born in its terri-
tory who would otherwise be stateless. Such nationality shall be granted:

(a) at birth, by operation of law, or

(b) upon an application being lodged with the appropriate authority, by
or on behalf of the person concerned, in the manner prescribed by the
national law. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Article, no
such application may be rejected.

Currently 82 states are parties to the convention.

The United States refused to join the convention to maintain the right to voluntarily renounce citizenship when that voluntary renunciation makes a person stateless. The convention bans that practice, because being stateless seriously inhibits a person's ability to work, live, and travel in most countries.

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XiJinpingStanAccount lemmy.ml XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-10-08
#12 · Quote Reply

I mean technically you don't have to. If you don't ever plan to come back to the US and the country you are going to doesn't really care about US law you can just go and entirely ignore the fact your a US citizen for the rest of your life. Just don't go somewhere the IRS can try to extradite you from.

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I_like_to_smell_it sh.itjust.works I_like_to_smell_it@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-09-24
#13 · Quote Reply

so you expect babies to be born stateless? do you think that would work out well for everyone?

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Tolookah discuss.tchncs.de Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-12
#14 · Quote Reply

Not even sure which place you're taking about or why you have to renounce citizenship.

They might be trying to be one of those sovereign citizens.

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yermaw sh.itjust.works yermaw@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-07-10
#15 · Quote Reply

You can just shout "I DECLARE STATELESSNESS" as youre boarding the plane/boat/train

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Dyskolos lemmy.zip Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-10-01
#16 · Quote Reply

Not even sure which place you're taking about or why you have to renounce citizenship.

If they don't tell which place, it's surely the dystopian joke USA 😁

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