It’s “renounce” not “denounce”.
And you don’t have to do it yourself. If you are a minor your parents can change your citizenship wihtout your consent.
It is like your parents moving you from Wisconsin to Texas. You were a citizen in the sovereign state of Wisconsin, but your parents moved to Texas and took you along, and now you are a citizen of the sovereign state of Texas.
It also is like social security. Most of us never made our own personal decision to enter into the social security system. Our parents made that choice for us, and they legally were allowed to do that (on our ‘behalf’.)
If he wen through the repatriation process, he would be a naturalized citizen, not a natural-born citizen. Natural born citizens NEVER have to go through a repatriation/naturalization process in the first place.
Renounce, ok? Sorry haven’t had a good nights sleep since Tues.
So if both my husband and I have a child in Georgia and we go loopy and decide to move to another country when he is 2 and renounce our citizenship, even though my child was born in this country he does not have the right to his citizenship anymore? What about his right as an individual?
Speak for yourself young grasshopper. I filled out my own application. We were allowed, even required, to that, "back in the day", sometime in the early Dark Ages IIRC. :)
Parents cannot renounce U.S. citizenship on behalf of their minor children. Before an oath of renunciation will be administered under Section 349(a)(5) of the INA, a person under the age of eighteen must convince a U.S. diplomatic or consular officer that he/she fully understands the nature and consequences of the oath of renunciation, is not subject to duress or undue influence, and is voluntarily seeking to renounce his/her U.S. citizenship.
-- http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_776.html