I’m not American so I can’t test this, but this law firm seems to think that you can claim that renouncing citizenship for the purposes of attaining another is an action taken under duress because it is assumed you wouldn’t otherwise want to give up and thus, have your certificate of loss of nationality revoked.
lolz good luck with that. When you do the interview for renunciation you are asked are you applying under duress. If so application for renunciation can be denied.
If renunciation denied then even better for getting ROC citizenship.
Well why don’t we get a petition going to crowdfund an American to renounce citizenship, then claim some duress or mental illness so they can re-apply for US citizenship. Sounds like a plan.
It’s still a possibility… I mean like seriously if you’re doing it just to become Taiwanese then clearly you didn’t do it 100% out of free choice. Yes you chose to become Taiwanese but if given the option… you would keep both. So I do see how this may work.
Just like with Australia. They let us resume based off the obvious fact we are doing this only to retain/acquire another nationality.
That only counts if the problem isn’t attributable to you specifically. Needs to be something like in the case of Japan, Poland or Germany… where nobody can get a renunciation at all.
Been tried, didn’t work. Maybe someone else might succeed. But it seems the system is rigged against you, forcing you to sign a “voluntary relinquishment” form.
Given that the consular officer refuses to accept the application unless a signed “voluntary relinquishment” form is provided, it would then seem that to prove duress, additional circumstances would need to be shown that caused the forced signing of the “voluntary relinquishment” form (such as some other third party threatening some violent action unless the form was signed, etc.).
It would seem to be important to establish exactly what circumstances (based on relevant case law) would meet the legal definition of “duress”.