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Why do I have to renounce my citizenship when I never announced it?
I didn’t subscribe to this place. Why must I unsubscribe?
Replying to @ki4jgt@feddit.org
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.
Replying to @disregardable@lemmy.zip
Everyone is entitled to a community and a place to live.
Source?
Replying to @UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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.