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In reply to the discussion: OMFG!!! [View all]Pachamama
(17,564 posts)Current laws allow dual citizenship although I know at one point during the Reagan years, it was not allowed. Then the law changed again. So what is interesting to find out is whether they are going to try to determine if he got US citizenship 39 years ago when it may have been legally required for him to declare US only and against the law kept his German citizenship then. Or did he choose US then at 15, giving up German citizenship and then later since then requested to get his citizenship in Germany again (when it was legal to have dual).
I smell something very fishy here and I agree with all the fellow DUers here that he should absolutely not go to this meeting without an immigration attorney and he needs to know the answers to those questions I just posed about when he got the US citizenship, was he allowed to have kept his German citizenship or did he renounce and get it again later. It's possible they are "fishing" and will use this to revoke his US citizenship.
On other note - I thought ICE can only talk to non-citizens and green card holders. It's the State Dept that handles US citizens. He is a US citizen. Something doesn't feel right here.