Sadly, the number of stateless people on this planet is around 4.4 million.
Countries can and do prevent people from holding a nationality all the time. You’re just not used to seeing it is all.
pturn1@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
INAL, but if you have eligibility to another country’s citizenship, there is the possibility—maybe even more so in the current US climate—that US citizenship could be revoked. Countries cannot make citizens stateless, so there must a secondary country that you would be eligible to be a citizen of, before the US could make you a non-US citizen.
That said, it seems like anything goes these days, so the big orange fella could change that approach too… Good luck and hope there’s no skeletons to worry about.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
pturn1@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Wow, never realised that… Honestly, (rich & power-hungry) humans suck sometimes…
Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Countries cannot make citizens stateless
Certain (most?) countries do their best to avoid making people stateless but there’s nobody to tell them no other than their own laws.
Last time I checked you can’t voluntarily rid yourself of your US citizenship, even if you have another.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
You can now, it costs a few grand
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Ah. Yes, I am utterly unsurprised.
mech@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Countries can literally do whatever they want.
Making citizens stateless goes against the UN declaration of human rights, but that’s just a piece of paper.