Perspective | A doctor tried to renew his passport. Now he’s no longer a citizen.
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A Northern Virginia doctor was born in D.C. and given a U.S. birth certificate. At 61, he learned his citizenship was granted by mistake.

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.

  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    45·
    10 months ago

    It’ is in the huge mount of things to fix, there are so fucking many. Do you remember how bad it was?

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      62·
      10 months ago

      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 🤷

      • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        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.