Immigration Reform Bill of 2007 & bills
I came across this info accidently yesterday (I'm not sure if the following bills are dead or are still in committee, or may be revived, sorry for the earlier confusion):
This year, as part of the US Immigration Reform Bill, there was a section in the bill which would have revoked dual citizenship for americans and any wishing to obtain dual citizenship in the future. There is a bill in committee for review (terrorism, etc subcommittee) which states the very same thing, as well a bill in the same committee requiring all US dual citizens to register as such with the State Dept. Currently, US does not require their citizens to register foreign citizenship status with other countries or US.
Bills:
Find at main site if you cannot directly to specific bill link:
http://thomas.loc.gov/
HR 3938:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:hr3938:
S1815:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s1815:
HR 4168
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:hr4168:
The main argument by the terrorism subcommittee members is the fact that Mexico has the largest percentage of Dual Citizens in the country. (Mexico made dual citizenship legal in 1998.)
My comment: Terrorism doesn't appear to be the reason for this one. This is a stupid argument and reasoning. Requiring an oath to US effectively does the same thing as preventing or revoking dual citizenship when combined with informing the foreign country of dual citizenship status. They figured out basically a number of ways to prevent dual status.
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