Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, the law required that the child's father be a U.S. citizen who at one time had resided in the U.S. Later, either parent's residency sufficed, but the children were required to live in the U.S. for a specific period of time to maintain their citizenship...
...Supreme Court ruled that Congress had no power to strip a person of citizenship: he had to renounce it voluntarily. But last month the court backed away from the implications of that decision. By a vote of 5 to 4, it ruled that a key section of the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act is constitutional. That section terminates the U.S. citizenship of a foreign-born child of an American parent unless the child lives in the U.S. for five consecutive years between the ages...
Global Dismay. The Government wants to retain that seemingly xenophobic rule to prevent feelings of divided loyalty by the child born and living abroad. With the required U.S. residency, the argument goes, the child will better understand the citizenship he wants to hold. But the Government's victory has baffled and angered Americans all over the world. Examples...
...Italy. As a youth, he visited the U.S. on his mother's passport; in 1952, the State Department issued Bellei his own passport, which was routinely approved until his 23rd birthday. Then, in 1966, the American consul in Rome informed him that he had lost his U.S. citizenship. Now living in Rome, Bellei spent years fighting for his right to be an American, and lost in the court of last resort...
...Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, was born in Edinburgh when his parents were there for a music festival. Now Gerard, a film editor in London, must return to the U.S. by his 23rd birthday on July 23, and live in the U.S. for five years or lose his American citizenship. Ironically, his younger brother Jeremy. 19, has spent less time in the U.S. but does not face the same danger; he was born in the U.S. Says their father: "It seems illogical to divide two brothers with the same parents and the same experience in life because one happened to be born...