Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by ImPostingOnHN on Thursday December 14, 2023 @10:55AM
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Acquiring another citizenship before renouncing is a given, since you can't legally be stateless. How else would it work?
In any case, I've never renounced a citizenship, but I can imagine countries making it hard. Is the process itself difficult, are there requirements other than the international law one of not being stateless?
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by shiroiuma on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:54PM
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Renouncing isn't hard for most people, except Americans who have to pay thousands of dollars in fees. Acquiring the new citizenship is what's hard; most decent countries don't just hand that out.
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by ImPostingOnHN on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:55AM
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The point is that of course you have to find citizenship in another country before renouncing your only other citizenship, otherwise you'd have no citizenship.
No, you can't. You have to renounce your US Citizenship to stop paying taxes in the US, no matter where you live. Renouncing requires acquiring citizenship in a new country, which isn't that easy: just ask anyone who's tried to naturalize in the US.
>Again, you’re part of a society and you can’t opt out, even if you don’t want to pay.
You're not really a part of the society if you don't live there, but if you're a US Citizen, you're still required to pay both federal and state taxes, even if you've never lived in the US in the first place.