Countries typically don’t allow that. For example, Canada requires you (at least) to be a citizen of another country and to live outside Canada.
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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I had no idea this was a thing. If you renounce your citizenship and you don’t yet have a new one… What a weird place to be in.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
doughless@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The UN would likely consider it a violation of their human rights if a country knowingly allowed a citizen to become stateless. I would hope that at least all member states would not allow it, but I don’t know for certain.
PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 4 months ago
You can renounce us citizenship any time you’d like. They don’t care if you’ll become stateless. But you definitely do not want to be stateless.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Now you have me wondering about legal juristiction of mermaids in international waters…
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
The USA allows it. Though I imagine the embassy staff will probably try to warn you.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Usually your old country takes you back in that case unless there’s some problem like you married an ISIS fighter.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Yeah, being stateless is really bad. There’s a few international agreements to avoid the creation of more stateless people, but it still happens.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Exactly what I was wondering, thanks. I assume you have to renounce before acquiring a new citizenship? No thanks.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
No, other way around. Most countries won’t even allow you to renounce if you don’t have another citizenship.
The US also charges $10,000 dollars to accept your renunciation. The US is one of the few countries that taxes its citizens in foreign countries. There is a substantial tax deduction for the first ~150K you earn in another country, as long as you spend less than 10 days in America or traveling and pay taxes in that country, as long as that country has such an agreement with the US.
frickineh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s $2350 to renounce, not $10k.
Eheran@lemmy.world 4 months ago
All the examples listed in Wiki seem very different from what OP is talking about. Most of the stateless persons are located in 4 counties. Crazy.