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Has anyone lost American citizenship after obtaining a second nationality due to 8 USC 1481?
But is it actually enforced?
No. The State Department presumes that anyone naturalizing in a foreign country or swearing an oath does so without the requisite intent to relinquish their US ...
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Ways to avoid a running Naturalization application being forwarded to another municipality/city
This answer is based on a legal greyzone and Berlin's notoriously inefficient bureaucracy. As @Trish noted, you are legally required to register your new residence within two weeks § 17 BMG. In some (...
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Ways to avoid a running Naturalization application being forwarded to another municipality/city
Don't move.
Your application is by law to be handled by the office that is responsible for your primary place of residence. The only lawful way to keep your primary place of residence at your old ...
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Can I get a passport from another country from IVF child
Under your description, the embryo donor might have French nationality, since at least one of her parent was presumptively a French citizen, but since she was born in the US, it was also required that ...
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Has anyone lost American citizenship after obtaining a second nationality due to 8 USC 1481?
As other answers have noted, since 1990, the Department of State has had an administrative presumption that applies to some (but not all) of the potentially expatriating acts. It applies to 8 USC 1481(...
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Has anyone lost American citizenship after obtaining a second nationality due to 8 USC 1481?
There is no evidence regarding actual legal enforcement. The statutory bar has raised over the years, owing to various Supreme Court rulings, whereby a person must voluntarily and intentionally ...
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Can I get a passport from another country from IVF child
No.
In a legally recognized IVF arrangement, the donors of the genetic material do not have a parent-child relationship to the child born.
Citizenship by means other than place of birth or ...
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