Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong

The following is some posts in s.c.british concerning about British subject

>   My understanding is that if you have British citizenship from birth, the UK Govt
>   *cannot* take it away from you, whatever you do. So if you *renounce* it (as
>   mentioned), this has no effect. You give up your passport to the US immigration
>   people, but they just send it back to the local British Consulate, who just 
>   mails it back to you. 


>Well, you can certainly formally renounce it to a BRITISH official.  (You
>can apparently get it back again, but you can only do this once).

>The major problem is the US viewpoint.  From their view, you have
>renounced your foreign citizenship.  If they find out that you are
>still acting as a British citizen (keeping a passport, voting etc)
>they can judge that you were lying when you applied for US citizenship,
>and strip you of that.  (And perhaps revoke your residency).

>If you are born a US citizen, it is hard to lose it, even if you
>become a citizen of another country  (This view is fairly recent,
>but is now the law!)  Your rights to *become* a US citizen are much weaker.

>Much of my understanding comes from Rich Wales at UCLA, who has a long
>file about such matters.

>From wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu Fri Oct 30 21:11:19 1992

>Bernard Silver wrote:

>       The major problem is the US viewpoint.  From their view, you
>       have renounced your foreign citizenship.  If they find out that
>       you are still acting as a British citizen (keeping a passport,
>       voting etc) they can judge that you were lying when you applied
>       for US citizenship, and strip you of that.  (And perhaps revoke
>       your residency). . . .  Much of my understanding comes from Rich
>       Wales at UCLA, who has a long file about such matters.

>It was recently brought to my attention that the US State Department has
>not generally been pursuing any loss-of-US-citizenship cases since some-
>time in late 1990.  So the above words of warning regarding continued
>exercise of non-US citizenship following US naturalization, while theo-
>retically still plausible, may in fact no longer be correct in practice.

>I do know for sure that the US State Department, since 1990, has had a
>policy of =not= attempting to revoke US citizenship in cases where some-
>one has made a "routine" declaration of allegiance to another country,
>unless the person in question indicates to the State Department that it
>is/was their intention to relinquish their US citizenship.

>Apparently, though, the State Department now considers a non-US declara-
>tion of allegiance to be "routine" (and not a cause for loss of one's US
>status) even if said declaration of allegiance includes an explicit
>renunciation of other citizenship.  Further, it appears that the State
>Department isn't even taking action in cases where newly naturalized US
>citizens (who are required to take an oath with a renunciatory clause)
>continue to maintain their prior citizenship ties.

>If true, this would represent a major break with earlier US policy,
>which was often quite aggressive in its insistence that people in vari-
>ous dual-citizenship situations had "voluntarily relinquished" their US
>nationality.

Which means that if you were born in Hong Kong and have been nationalisatoin
into US. You may still have a Hong Kong British citizenship.

By any mean, you can have any citizenship offered from a country have