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A doctor tried to renew his passport. Now he's no longer a citizen
- pinewurst 3y agohttps://archive.vn/FbFHz https://archive.vn/FbFHz
- vsskanth 3y agoThis is why I think the US needs to have a rolling immigration registry where you get automatic permanent resident status once you've lived XX+ years in the country (voters can decide the conditions, if it should only apply to people here legally or not) There are many cases where people come over on non-immigrant visas and their kids have to leave the country when they turn 21, even if they've spent all their lives here legally, because US immigration law doesn't provide any time-based path to permanent residency.
- mikewarot 3y agoI'm generally supportive of anything that helps eliminate second class people in the US. We shouldn't have a permanently exploitable group of people. "All men are created equal" should be what we live up to, nothing less is acceptable. Just being here long enough should be enough proof to get you into the citizenship pipeline.
- toasted-subs 3y agoI was pleasantly surprised with the passport renewal process. They said it could take months to get a new passport. Got it within two weeks without doing the rush delivery.
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- ThePowerOfFuet 3y agoYour comment added absolutely nothing to the discourse related to the article being discussed.
- olliej 3y agoIn fairness neither did yours, and recursively neither did this :D
- DangitBobby 3y agoPretty fucking crazy that the state department feels it has the authority to unilaterally revoke his citizenship despite him having been granted it at birth and been treated as a citizen his entire life. You don't get to say "oops didn't mean to" 60 years after your fuck up. Not to mention how idiotic it is to do that to someone like the subject of the article, the type of people every country wants as citizens.
- protastus 3y agoNot only that, the State Department revoked his only citizenship and made him stateless. This is a huge deal and it's crazy this is possible (legally and bureaucratically) in the United States. The article makes it sound like an anonymous member of the bureaucracy checked a box in a form and now this man is a ghost. No legal proceedings, no transparency, no accountability.
- lnxg33k1 3y agoAFAIK it is disallowed by the universal declaration of human rights to leave people stateless isn’t the us a signee?
- askiiart 3y agoI looked over the universal declaration of human rights and didn't see anything about statelessness, but the UNHCR has a page on it: https://reporting.unhcr.org/spotlight/statelessness https://reporting.unhcr.org/spotlight/statelessness
- lnxg33k1 3y agoIt has an article about everyone having the right to have a nationality, so I suppose making anyone stateless would be against it? See article 15 https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
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- akadruid1 3y agohttps://archive.ph/fFsEf https://archive.ph/fFsEf
- alexpc201 3y agoNeither stateless nor limbo. He is iranian.
- ricardobeat 3y agoHe was born on US soil, never lived in Iran, and doesn’t seem to have Iranian citizenship. What makes him Iranian according to the article?
- vidarh 3y agoIranian law makes every child of an Iranian man an Iranian citizen irrespective of where he was born, so technically he probably is an Iranian citizen by birth. This isn't uncommon - e.g. my son is a Norwegian citizen as well as British because he was born in the UK but I'm Norwegian. That said, I think it'd be immensely cruel not to recognize him as a US citizen, and he may well be right it might be unsafe for him to claim Iranian citizenship.
- dTal 3y agoGiven that he previously renewed his passport without issue, one wonders what procedures have changed in the State Department. Have they recently started doing deeper background checks? Could this be related to the alluded recent rise in "many passport-renewal nightmare stories, with processing delays forcing people to beg, lose sleep and miss once-in-a-lifetime trips"?
- bookofjoe 3y agoThis past June when I went to renew my Virginia driver's license, which I initially obtained in 1983 after moving from California with my California license, I was told I needed to bring my birth certificate. But I previously renewed it in 1988/93/98/03/08/13/18 — 7 times! — without any paperwork being required.
- BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y agoThe ”I am not a robot” quiz is impenetrable, especially with poor quality photos.