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U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno presented a bill aimed at abolishing dual citizenship in the country.According to the ‘Only Citizenship Act’ of 2025 announced on Monday, any individual with dual citizenship would gotta renounce abroad citizenship and commit to ‘exclusive allegiance’ to the United States in order to stay an American.
The bill would give Americans with dual citizenship a year to resign in writing to abroad or American citizenship.Those who neglect to comply will be deemed to have voluntarily renounced American citizenship.“If you want to be American, it’s all or nothing.
Time to put an end to dual citizenship erstwhile and for all" – said an Ohio Senator born in Colombia in a press release, who received American citizenship after turning 18.According to media reports, the proposed bill, if it enters into force, could straight affect the born in Slovenia first woman of the United States Melania Trump and her son, Barron.Melania moved to the United States in 1996 and gained American citizenship through a formal naturalization process.
Although there is no public confirmation that she retained Slovene citizenship, many biography indicates that she did and arranged for Barron to get it.Other celebrities allegedly affected by this bill are the owner of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk, erstwhile California politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, actors Tom Hanks and Salma Hayek and others.Analysts note, however, that the Moreno plan may encounter a constitutional barrier due to the fact that it is contrary to the 14th amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees that the U.S. citizen cannot be deprived of citizenship unless he voluntarily renounces it.
Although the United States does not run an authoritative database of people with dual citizenship, more than 40 million Americans – around 12% of the population – could legally own them, according to global Living, a global release for expatriates.The proposed bill is consistent with president Donald Trump's immigration policy.
Since his return to office, he has signed a number of executive decrees aimed at strengthening border security, from the introduction of stricter eligibility criteria for asylum seekers to the detention of thousands of illegal immigrants, to the abolition of the automatic granting of citizenship to children born in the US.
However, the second measurement was almost immediately blocked by national courts that ruled that it was violating the constitution.
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