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Boris Johnson, the British politician, was born in New York to British parents. When years later he tried to change planes in Florida en route to Mexico they w
by gandalfian 8y ago
Boris Johnson, the British politician, was born in New York to British parents. When years later he tried to change planes in Florida en route to Mexico they would not let him into the USA without an American passport, his UK one was no good if he was born in the USA. So he renounced his USA citizenship, which he never knew he had, at which point they demanded his tax returns for his life, including a large chunk of the capital gains money he made selling a house in England. He had to pay up too despite never having had any connection with the USA except his birth. My point is not that this stuff is right but that it does happen, even in the USA.
Mysteriously we are all democracies yet still prisoners of our governments and unable to free ourselves?
- TomMarius 8y agoSo how do we use Bitcoin to fix this?
- manuelisimo 8y agowith machine learning of course
- sys_64738 8y agoHe didn't renounce his US citizenship until 2016 when he was 52. I'm pretty sure that Boris would have known from an early age that he was an American citizen.
- Scoundreller 8y agoThis situation is going to crop up a lot more as the EU implements a system to pre-approve travellers to Europe. There are lots of USians that are technically EU citizens (born there decades ago, or their descendants knowingly or unknowingly registered with the home country). In the past, the border police usually didn’t care once you arrived, but I bet the machine will be programmed more absolutely. And if you’re an American with a security clearance, being a citizen of another country is usually okay if you haven’t taken any advantage of it, but getting a foreign passport could be a big red flag.