The Northern Virginia doctor knows at least that much about his situation. He knows he is no longer considered a citizen of the United States — the place where he was born, went to school and has practiced medicine for more than 30 years — and that he also belongs to no other place.
A letter from a State Department official informed him that he should not have been granted citizenship at the time of his birth because his father was a diplomat with the Embassy of Iran. The letter directed Sobhani to a website where he could apply for lawful permanent residence.
https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/document/2018-09-14_Trump_Administrations_Plan_to_Strip_Citizenship_from_Thousands_of_Americans.pdf
The current administration HAS had over 3 years to correct this atrocity, though. What’s keeping them?
How long has the administration known about this case? It sounds like the guy is just finding out himself.
Is there even a legal process for the administration to un-revoke his citizenship? Maybe the only legal means to reverse this is for him to sue and the courts to overturn it?
His specific case is newly discovered, but it was caused by a disgusting 2018 Trump administration policy, so they’ve effectively been able to know that such a thing was bound to happen since long before they even took office and had the power to at least TRY to do something about it since they took office
Yes, but it’s usually going to involve either the horribly broken appeals court system or the even worse immigration court system. Maybe even both, in which case he’ll have been dead from old age for a decade by the time its through.
OR the state department could rescind the policy change retroactively, annulling the retroactive annulment of his citizenship retroactively.
Try saying that last part quickly 5 times 😄
It’ is in the huge mount of things to fix, there are so fucking many. Do you remember how bad it was?
I’m not saying the number of things to fix isn’t enormous, but surely this one should be important enough to reach the top of the pile some time during the first THREE YEARS.
Then again, there’s still concentration camps on the southern border and it’s still very nearly impossible for anyone to be allowed to seek asylum, let alone succeed, so maybe they don’t mind that part of the previous regime as much as they pretended to before the election 🤷
You do remember covid, yeah? Politics is a shitty business, you have to make concessions here or there to keep doing an overall good job. Biden is not perfect, not even close. But he’s done way better than trump and I don’t see the “moderates” voting for anyone than an old white man. He has also done 1000x better than I thought he would.
is it though?
Stripping CITIZENSHIP from people is the most bizarre and fucked up thing one could do.
It makes active citizens insecure, and puts a strong barrier between citizenship by being born to two Americans and citizenship by naturalization, making the latter essentially second-class.
The government should only be able to strip your citizenship if you commit literal treason.
Even then I’m actually opposed to it. As far as I’m concerned the only way to lose it should be to fill out the paperwork that says you don’t want it anymore.
I mean, I know you’re writing in hiperbole, but I can think of more bizarre and fucked up things than that.