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Renouncing US citizenship

May 15th, 2003 by Hen

This is lovely, if a US citizen decides to renounce their citizenship [must be on foreign soil], they are still eligible for the draft.

http://www.travel.state.gov/renunciation.html

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3 Responses to “Renouncing US citizenship”

  1. bayard Says:
    May 14th, 2003 at 11:27 pm

    Yeah, my selective service card turned up a while back. I was livid, but fortunately noticed that having to worry about it ends at 26, and I was just over that age.

  2. bayard Says:
    May 15th, 2003 at 8:49 am

    And for any UK’ers considering dropping their citizenship:

    http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/default.asp?PageId=1157

    In typical nationalistic sense, I think ours is better. At least we enforce that the person leaving has somewhere to go. [Although I bet there are lots of deportation exceptions]

  3. Dave Says:
    May 15th, 2003 at 9:58 am

    Also, any male in the US on a green card can be drafted. I used to joke with an Irish friend that he would be in a tight spot if the US declared war on Ireland and drafted him :)