Can a born citizen be stripped of citizenship?

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AmericanWannabe

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Someone suggest to take citizenship away from John Walker Lindh.
But he never explicitly denounce his citizenship, can can the gov\'t
do that?
 
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I read somewhere that a USA citzen, born or natualized, may
lose his or her citizenship by performing certain acts
with the INTENTION of relinquishing citizenship.
It is obviously acts such as becoming a citizen of
another country has such intention, but "certain acts"
also include serving in other countries\'s military that
are involved in hostilities agains the USA, which John
Walker did.
 
Moving to India with a US born kid

Hi

My sister is in US on a H1B visa, she has a daughter born in US.
Now they are going to move back to India.

My Q is what is the best way for her to procced in terms of keeping the option for her daughter to come back to US later as a citizen

1) take up US passport for her daughter & move her back to India on a Indian visa.

2) move her (daughter) back on Indian passport and
apply later for US passport if & when the daughter wants to move back to US.

Number 2) looks better since it avoids any hassle with beeing in India on a US visa for a long time. But is it possible.

I remember reading some place that children under 18 can not give up their right to US citizenship.
OR will her having a Indian passport imply she gave up her right to
US citizenship ??

Thanks
 
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A citizen may lose his citizen by performing certain acts
such renouncing the USA citizenship, plegding allegience to
a foreign country, serving in foreign army engaged in
hostilities against the USA. Otherwise I believe a person born
in the USA can claim to US citizenship lifetime even he
use passports of other countries.

In fact, I don\'t know how it works. In Country X, there was
a scandal (I can not have it confirmed). A woman major general
(a professor/deputy dean at a foreign language University run
by the military to train intelligience offciers) was born in the
USA and went back in the 1950s (the country was de facto at
war with the USA). For certain reasons, she always
wrote down a city in Country X as her birthplace on all kinds of
form for obviously reasons. A few years ago, she came to the USA
in a government delegation and she secretly went to her real birth
place, and eventually reclaimed her US citizenship. She did not
move to the USA but her childrens got an easy way to come here.
She was exposed after retirement (not sure if any discipline
action is taken in COuntry X).
 
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There are many real similar stories in the past.
Such American citizens always could manage to come
back to the USA as a citizen.

For the example, you can find and read this book "The man who
stayed behind" by Sidney Rittenberg and Amanda Bennett. Mr.
Rittenberg said he never explicitly renounce his citizenship
when he later went to an American embassy to get a USA passport
after so many years. But I believe the American government
could also have found soem legal grounds to deny his citizenship
if the government had really wanted to.
 
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If you were born in the US, not one can take your citizenship away from you. If you were naturalized (not born here), you citizenship can be taken away from you.
 
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My recommendation would be:
Take a US passport for your daughter. Apply for a Person of Indian Origin card (although expensive - approx. $1000, is really cheap when ammortized over the life time).
The PIO card gives her rights work study, work, travel and do everything in India except for vote and stand for an elected government post.
This way she has legal rights in both countries and can easily move back an forth between the two places for the rest of her life and you have been able to give her that choice. In the future she can decide to obtain an Indian citizenship (based on PIO card) and relinquish her US citizenship.

India does not support dual citizenship, hence if she takes up Indian citizenship (and hence passport), she will have to give up the US passport and citizenship.

In my opinion, (2) is the worst option you can give you daughter, based on the current foreign policies of both India and US governments.
 
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