[twostep]

Just a point: you can't renounce US citizenship until you have another citizenship established - and that takes time.

What I'm curious about is "am unable to obtain a port" due to felony charges. Sure, if the judge ordered you to hand in your port while the trial is pending, you're kind of stuffed. But it's not that you can't get a port in the first place. (Plenty of felons have ports.)
Cheers,
Bev

Can you please post an official link in regards to the requirement of another citizenship prior to denouncing US citizenship? the great escape during Vietnam?
404 - Page Not Found

 

[Bevdeforges]

Renunciation of U.S. Nationality

While having no other citizenship to fall back on will not prevent you from renouncing, I can assure you that the Consulate will give you a long argument about becoming stateless - depending on the country in which you wind up renouncing. (And by definition, you have to be in a foreign country in order to renounce according to this page.)
Cheers,
Bev

 

[Bellthorpe]

Which means that Hijo_del_mar, the person whose case we're discussing, can't renounce as (theoretically) he can't get to another country due to lack of port.

That's true. Here's an example, although I don't think it applies here.

Drug dealers do not need to apply per your link.

That doesn't refer to 'drug dealers' per se. It refers to drug offenders 'if the individual used a port or otherwise crossed an international border in committing the offense'. We do not know that Hijo_del_mar did that.

 

[twostep]

Which means that Hijo_del_mar, the person whose case we're discussing, can't renounce as (theoretically) he can't get to another country due to lack of port.



That doesn't refer to 'drug dealers' per se. It refers to drug offenders 'if the individual used a port or otherwise crossed an international border in committing the offense'. We do not know that Hijo_del_mar did that.

Are you barred legal counsel in the U.S.?

 

[twostep]

Renunciation of U.S. Nationality

While having no other citizenship to fall back on will not prevent you from renouncing, I can assure you that the Consulate will give you a long argument about becoming stateless - depending on the country in which you wind up renouncing. (And by definition, you have to be in a foreign country in order to renounce according to this page.)
Cheers,
Bev

What do you base this assurance on?

 

[Bellthorpe]

Which means that Hijo_del_mar, the person whose case we're discussing, can't renounce as (theoretically) he can't get to another country due to lack of port.

That doesn't refer to 'drug dealers' per se. It refers to drug offenders 'if the individual used a port or otherwise crossed an international border in committing the offense'. We do not know that Hijo_del_mar did that.

Are you barred legal counsel in the U.S.?

Not the last time I engaged counsel, no.

But I don't see the connexion between engaging legal counsel and being banned from obtaining a US port with a felony drug conviction.

 

[Bevdeforges]

What do you base this assurance on?

US Consular officials I have spoken to. (But there is still the issue of the OP having to get to another country sans port to be able to renounce at a US Consulate.)

Honestly, the Consulate people are generally about as sympathetic as they can be with folks who are looking to renounce or with other issues with their citizenship (especially tax related stuff).
Cheers,
Bev

 

[twostep]

Sympathetic? It is an individual's personal decision not some clerical worker's.

 

[tiwandon]

Their is no place like home. That said, we all make our homes wherever we land. We are this century's nomad and will always wonder far away but sooner or later most return home.
Been gone 21 years now and loved every place and Phi on my short list of next home if i move.

 

[twostep]

Their is no place like home. That said, we all make our homes wherever we land. We are this century's nomad and will always wonder far away but sooner or later most return home.
Been gone 21 years now and loved every place and Phi on my short list of next home if i move.

Have not yet found my final spot.

Yiu may want to talk to Sardonicus.