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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by ImPostingOnHN on Thursday December 14, 2023 @10:55AM (#38642696)
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?

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by shiroiuma on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:54PM (#38649687)
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.
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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by ImPostingOnHN on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:55AM (#38665125)
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.
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