Comments on: Back in The Village again

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 30 May 2011 22:14:19 +0000

No CAPITAL letters. Nice! You’re recognized as human being.

By: Mike Gogulski

Mike Gogulski — Sun, 29 May 2011 20:40:34 +0000

Hello Bai,

No, I do not think that should would be banned, but she would definitely have to obtain a visa to visit the US as a holder of a PRC passport only. However, one might think that having renounced one’s US citizenship in the past might put one on a list of “persons of interest” for extra border screening, at the very least.

By: Bailong

Bailong — Sun, 29 May 2011 15:12:54 +0000

Mike or any other informed person,

I am a US citizen and my wife was born a citizen of PR China. We met and eventually married while I was working in China. We moved to the States a few years later. While living there she obtained citizenship (against my advice). Now I have been sent back to China to work and she is trying to get her US employer to sponsor her Chinese Resident/Work visa here in China so she can continue working for said employer. She is having problems getting these documents and has considered renouncing her US citizenship in order to avoid the need for such a document.

My question now is, if she renouces her citizenship will she be able to obtain a visa to visit the US (work, family vists, etc..) or will she barred from entering the US?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Bai

By: majd

majd — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:10:52 +0000

i mean based on my belgian residence permit

By: majd

majd — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:08:30 +0000

hi there
i just got my stateless travel document as well!
mine is issued by belgium but it looks almost the same as yours
did u travel outside EU yet?
any idea whether i could travel to any non-EU countries without a visa? so based on my belgian perminent resident
thanx

By: TheOneLaw

TheOneLaw — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:48:38 +0000

Alternative travel documents are available
for those who meet the requirements.
Ask around, if you are interested.

It is never the end of the world,
merely an utterly difficult situation.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:12:25 +0000

Good on you, Mike. What’s funny is that I’ve just applied for US citizenship (I’m an asylee in the US) because I’m tired of the travel document (which is woefully expensive here- almost $400 for a document that lasts a year!). I would love some of your courage and conviction. Maybe someday…

By: Jessica Sideways

Jessica Sideways — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:27:10 +0000

Oooh, protection. Does that mean they will hire bodyguards for you? How’d you swing that? ;-P

@Uncle: Yeah, we’ll see about that, especially if I return to the United States of Jesusland with a nationality and passport under the VWPP.

By: Subversive Uncle Frank

Subversive Uncle Frank — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:24:27 +0000

It may be your actual experience that you would have to go through the hardest visa process to travel to the U.S., but the U.S. is a signer to the human rights declaration.

It includes the right to return to your country and there is no “except if you renounced citizenship.”

In addition, the U.S. Supreme court has specifically ruled that renouncing your citizenship does not in any way affect your right to enter the U.S., remain in the U.S. or seek gainful employment.

If you want to give it a try, I wouldn’t apply for a visa. I would take your cancelled passport, your new travel document, your certificate of loss of nationality and your birth certificate and simply go.

Once immigration reads their own regulations, they should allow you to enter.

By: Mike Gogulski

Mike Gogulski — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:42:49 +0000

@Sean: Perhaps it would have, but it’s done. And, by certain measures, life is pretty hard regardless.