Born American Canadian recently harassed by Homeland Security

Here is your chance, RoadWarrior. Show the lies.

And it is very difficult to get information about what I should do since perceptions are always assuming I want to repatriate, not that I dont. I am acquiring information even from trolls like RoadWarrior about the risks. I find it hard to believe that US authorities would be as vindictive as he says they should be. Maybe they will be,,, but probably they wont be. Even DHS, in the end, was understanding and sympathetic -- even though they gave me no choice about getting a US passport. I will be returning to the US soon and I have to resolve this dilemma of whether to open the door to a host of US obligations I may or may not have, or simply close the door in a formal way and continue to travel on my Canadian passport, as a singular citizen.

It may not be that simple.

8 USC 1182: "(E) Former citizens who renounced citizenship to avoid taxation
Any alien who is a former citizen of the United States who officially renounces United States citizenship and who is determined by the Attorney General to have renounced United States citizenship for the purpose of avoiding taxation by the United States is inadmissible. " Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

As to a couple of earlier questions:

1. Carter's amnesty was issued under the Presidential pardon power, which of course is granted that office under the US Constitution.

2. Why did it reference 1182? Implicitly explained here: http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/INT/HTML/INT/0-0-0-65300/0-0-0-83669.html (though note that the version of the statute as it stood when his Exec Order referenced a subsection thereof and the current version one might pull off the web today may not be identical). As to US Citizens, I think he didn't have to say anything more than "your crime is pardoned"; having said that, as US citizens they had the right to repatriate. As to aliens, he had to direct law enforcement not to enforce the law against aliens who'd evaded military service re-entering, and therefore had to speak to 1182. Ford, BTW, and had not done anything to limit that law, see a footnote in the linked decision.

sorry, I edited 338 while 339 was being posted. I agree.

I'm still not clear on why it referenced 1182

8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(22) classified aliens who left the US in order to avoid the draft as ineligible aliens (denied entry into the US). The executive order got rid of that rule, and allowed them to come back if they weren't ineligible for other reasons.

That wouldn't apply to a US citizen. And virtually everyone born on US soil is a natural-born citizen.

To put it succinctly, I do not recognize US jurisdiction over me to tell me what to do

This one is a classic!

It seems that you have 3 choices:

1) Get a US passport to enter and transit the US.

2) Renounce your US citizenship ( yes I know that you don't consider yourself a US citizen, but the US government does).

3) find travel ways to travel to and from Canuckistan without passing through the US.

Choose an option and be done with it.

8 USC 1182: "(E) Former citizens who renounced citizenship to avoid taxation

Any alien who is a former citizen of the United States who officially renounces United States citizenship and who is determined by the Attorney General to have renounced United States citizenship for the purpose of avoiding taxation by the United States is inadmissible. " Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

All this is mostly irrelevant to my case. If I renounce there are multiple reasons for doing so. Back taxes is not one of them. At least in Canada, you can make an exemption if you paid taxes in another country while working in another country. I assume the same applies in the US,,, ie while working in Canada I paid Canadian taxes. The worry I have is that every US citizen must fill out a tax form every year, whether they end up owing taxes or not. I am not familiar with all the intricacies or the penalties of such a monotonous obligation but if the exact wording is to be believed, I would not be renouncing in order to avoid paying taxes. I owe none.

Dababa--

Actually I have 5 choices. But thanks for your concern.

Since your #3 is not really an option and #5 is the cause of your complaint it seems like your real options are only 3.

I see what you mean, But #3 could delay making a decision without any consequences since I have a reason for not taking the oath, ie it is self incriminating and it could jeopardize my Cdn citizenship in the future. #5 is consistent with how both of us, me and the US govt, have been playing the game for 35 years...

Since your #3 is not really an option and #5 is the cause of your complaint it seems like your real options are only 3.

This thread makes me wonder what my brother's situation is with his Canuckistani citizenship. Although he doesn't seem to have much interest in going there and it's not like the routes to Europe and Asia involve travel through there.