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> Having citizenship does not protect you if you are an enemy combatant. Actually in that case you loose your citizenship: Although a person's enlistment in t
by ma2rten 13y ago
> Having citizenship does not protect you if you are an enemy combatant.
Actually in that case you loose your citizenship:
Although a person's enlistment in the armed forces of a foreign country may not constitute a violation of U.S. law, it [may cause] loss of U.S. nationality if an American voluntarily and with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship enters or serves in foreign armed forces engaged in hostilities against the United States or serves in the armed forces of any foreign country as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer.
http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_780.html http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_780.html
- stoolpigeon 13y agolose
- nknighthb 13y ago> with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship Note well this. And it's not just a statute, it's controlling Supreme Court precedent. That's actually why the language that gets used is so consistently weird -- old laws have basically had "with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship" forced into them by case law. For a citizen to wage war against the United States is treason, but not even treason is punished by loss of citizenship. You could steal Putin's job and launch Russia's nukes at the US, and you'd still have your citizenship so long as you did not intend to relinquish it.