[[He was not already a citizen and then “burdened” with extra requirements.]]
Yes he was- the burden for NBC born off-soil is greater than on-soil for the reasons i and springfieldreformer mentioned- He lost his citizenship because of lax guidelines by the court in determining what a person’s ‘intent to expatriate’ were- I’m not going to keep stating this- You seem to be trying to dance around this point- but it always comes back to this point regarding the Bellei case-
[[Even if Bellei did not lose his citizenship he would still be a naturalized citizen,]]
There was no statute that conferred citizenship to him nor was there a naturalization process he went through- another point you seem disinclined to address- There was a statute that he failed to comply with which, wrongly, in the eyes of the court, they determined to mean he voluntarily expatriated himself without going through a process of expatriation- as mentioned several times now, courts have stepped up to the plate and done away with such lax interpretation of a citizen’s ‘intent to expatriate’, and for good reason- Courts can’t just arbitrarily strip a citizen of their citizenship without strong/stringent probable cause anymore-
[[If he had not been naturalized he would not have lost his citizenship.]]
If you will read the dissenting opinion in the case- he most certainly did lose his NBC citizenship- this is why later courts stepped in to correct this atrocity so that it never happens again- it is now much much harder for a court to strip someone of their citizenship and yes, a court can and does strip people of their citizenship- but it is nowm uch harder for them to do so than it was in Bellei’s day
> There was no statute that conferred citizenship to him nor was there a naturalization process he went through
Naturalization is the conferring of citizenship by statute.
> If you will read the dissenting opinion in the case- he most certainly did lose his NBC citizenship
There you go again. Bellei lost his citizenship because he was a naturalized citizen who did not comply with naturalization statute.