[quote=“Tigerman”][quote=“twocs”]It’s a bit of a double standard.
Taiwanese people can renounce their Taiwanese citizenship, but the govenment doesn’t recognize the renunciation, so they are still Taiwanese. Thus, they will be Taiwanese and American even though they “renounced” their Taiwanese citizenship to become American. The government doesn’t recognize the renunciation of citizenship in normal situations, yet they demand that foreigners must renounce their citizenship to become Taiwanese.[/quote]
The US does not require natuaralized citizens to renounce their original citizenships.[/quote]
You’re incorrect if you are saying that to become a naturalized citizen of the US that you do not need to unequivocably renounce your original citizenship. To become a citizen of the United States, one must take the oath of allegiance, which reads as follows.
[quote=“www.uscis.gov”]
Oath of Allegiance
The oath of allegiance is:
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”
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So that you don’t have to run to check your dictionary, here it is in layman’s terms.
[quote=“www.uscitizenship.info/citizenship_library_dual.htm”]The situation is slightly less clear for someone who becomes a US citizen via naturalization and still wishes to take advantage of his old citizenship. People who go through US naturalization are required to state under oath that they are renouncing their old citizenship, and conduct inconsistent with this pledge could theoretically lead to loss of one’s US status.
However, the State Department is no longer actively pursuing cases of this nature in most situations. In particular, when a new American’s “old country” refuses to recognize the US naturalization oath (with its renunciatory clause) as having any effect on its own citizenship laws – and insists that the person in question must continue to deal with his old country as a citizen thereof (e.g., by using that country’s passport when travelling there to visit) – the US State Department no longer minds. [/quote]
The US does require a person who wants to be naturalized to renounce their original citizenship(s). If a country accepts someone who has under oath stated that they have no loyalty to it, it seems folly to me, but I am not a politician.
To be fair, though, most Taiwanese have no clue that foreigners are held to a different standard; they only “know” that we make tons more money than they do. (Yes, all of us.)
