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When, as the result of an individual's inquiry or an individual's application for registration or a passport it comes to the attention of a U.S. consular officer that a U.S. citizen has performed an act made potentially expatriating by Sections 349(a)(1), 349(a)(2), 349(a)(3) or 349(a)(4) as described above, the consular officer will simply ask the applicant if there was intent to relinquish U.S. citizenship when performing the act. If the answer is no, the consular officer will certify that it was not the person's intent to relinquish U.S. citizenship and, consequently, find that the person has retained U.S. citizenship.

As always you are looking at it from your American pov. I am not interested in repatriating,,, I am being forced to. I dont care whether I did something that may or may not relinquish my supposed US citizenship. I dont care to lie under oath, to renounce my allegiances to Canada but then, like in a miracle, be pardoned for my sins if I beg forgiveness from a consular official that so sorry I didnt really mean to be a Canadian. All stamped and approved and glossed over to assure everyone that being American and America is the greatest in the world. Sorry. I cant play that game of smoke and mirrors and delusions and lies. I need a US passport because I am being ordered by Homeland Security to get one. I do not renounce anything nor believe in my heart the words of the oath, and to take it is not a voluntary act but a necessity for the security of my person. Plain and simple. Where do I sign?

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I not only have a "foreign passport" I went through the naturalization process of Canada. I dont regret that and my obvious "intent" was to be a Canadian. I do not want to repatriate to the US, and so get a US passport and gain the approval of US officials that my "intent" is to be a good American -- I must get a US passport because your country claims jurisdiction over me when I travel there. That's the truth.

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Speaking of Superman being above all these earthly squabbles,,, maybe I should get this to avoid all the hassles..

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/car-life/cheney/jetlev-lets-you-fly-like-superman---for-99500/article2017268/

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Perhaps there is more satisfaction in presenting oneself as a victim of dark and devious forces, caught in the folds of exotic citizenship law and brain-dead civil servants, than in actualy solving the problem.

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I have expressed the situation as I face it, more akin to a cross jurisdictional bureaucratic nightmare with ethical overtones. You can describe it as you like as some dark devious forces after me. lol. Although "caught in the folds of exotic citizenship law" isnt too bad, but "brain-dead civil servants" is not my critique, more I blame the politicians who use people like me as fodder...

I will leave my ultimate decision (solution) private. Sorry,,, you wont know the ending...

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VinnyD at #71 ...ouch! Smackdown!!

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OK, after this

You are wrong. I have already pointed out that there is an oath to receive a passport,, Nextra posted it. It is quite clear that if I take the oath I am compromising my Canadian citizenship,,, and I would literally have to lie in order to qualify for a US passport, a passport the DHS is coercing me to get.

I think that OP is trolling. Either that or OP isn't bothering to read the posts. In either case there's not much point in continuing.

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Vinny, I have been going on those assumptions for pretty much the entire thread.
After the OP's last statement in #107, I think the former is pretty well confirmed.

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Yup. Although I agree that Vinnie's earlier response was worth the price of admission.

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As well as the brief debate on the citizenship of Superman.

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