Re:Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction...
by mikeash on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:43PM
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I don’t know about other countries, but in the US, it’s basically impossible to involuntarily lose citizenship, and citizens have an absolute right to enter the country. Permanent residents can lose their status and get kicked out of the country for various offenses, and can potentially be denied entry for arbitrary reasons.
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Re:Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction...
by captainperl on Sunday December 23, 2018 @09:29PM
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> in the US, it’s basically impossible to involuntarily lose citizenship
Over the past 20 years, several laws have been passed that erode proof of citizenship:
- id documents with an expiry date are not usable after that date (expired passports used to be accepted for domestic non-travel uses)
- the Evite database decides whether you can work at many companies
- parish records are sometimes deemed unacceptable as proof of birth, disallowing the reissue of other documents like passports
- some people have duplicate SSNs
- in the past year, a small number of people in both the USA and Canada have been told their original and valid citizenship documents were not valid by Immigration, with the burden of proof on the citizens.