[Mr. K]

How do you even ‘apply’ to relinquish your citizenship?

Is there a form for that?

Who do you send it to?

If you have NO citizenship, where can you go to live?

[CodeToad]

“How do you even ‘apply’ to relinquish your citizenship?
Is there a form for that?
Who do you send it to?
If you have NO citizenship, where can you go to live?”

Are you really that naive?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Basically the rules are that you have to go to an embassy or consulate in a foreign country, convince the official that you're serious and know what this means, fill out a form, swear an oath of renunciation and hand over your passport. If you don't have some other arrangement with another country, you're then rendered stateless.

This article is short on details, but it kinda sounds like someone in the US just mailed in a form.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: If you have NO citizenship, where can you go to live?

Apparently the man who applied to relinquish US citizenship has citizenship in another country.

[SeekAndFind]

This website could help answer questions on US citizenship renunciation:

http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_776.html

In short:

A person wishing to renounce his or her U.S. citizenship must voluntarily and with intent to relinquish U.S. citizenship:

1) appear in person before a U.S. consular or diplomatic officer,

2) in a foreign country (normally at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate); and

3) sign an oath of renunciation

Renunciations that do not meet the conditions described above have no legal effect. Because of the provisions of section 349(a)(5), Americans cannot effectively renounce their citizenship by mail, through an agent, or while in the United States. In fact, U.S. courts have held certain attempts to renounce U.S. citizenship to be ineffective on a variety of grounds

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