[ Do you suddenly become a second-class citizen just because your house is located outside the 50 states? ]
YES... if your primary residence is in another country your citizenship should be questioned..
Unless you are in the armed services.. or a very few in the Diplomatic Corp..
Or because your job requires it for a fixed amount of time.
There are many loyal citizens living abroad for varying reasons and should NOT become second class citizens for that.
I tend to agree with you on that one. I’ve lived outside the U.S. myself in the past, and I adopted my “host” country’s customs to the extent possible. I still maintained my financial roots here in the U.S. for obvious reasons (I wasn’t relocating to another country permanently), but I had every expectation that in some matters I would be treated as a “second-class citizen” back in the U.S. That’s simply the reality you face when you establish a primary residence outside the U.S.
Not really a matter of citizenship. Many of us have had to reside in a foreign country for work and some retirees live overseas because their retirement dollars allow a better quality of life there. But one has to take the good with the bad and the US Constitution doesn’t apply in Canada anymore than theirs applies in the USA. And I doubt any of us what to open up claims that it does. When living in Belgium I was under Belgian law. If that was not tolerable I always had the right (and eventually did with a wide smile on my face when my job there ended) to move back home.
——YES... if your primary residence is in another country your citizenship should be questioned..——
Really ?
And unless overseas is the only place where you can find gainful employment like so many have.
>[ Do you suddenly become a second-class citizen just because your house is located outside the 50 states? ]
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>YES... if your primary residence is in another country your citizenship should be questioned..
>Unless you are in the armed services.. or a very few in the Diplomatic Corp..
That sentiment makes me VERY uncomfortable; if the government is able to “question” (read: “possibly revoke”) your citizenship then ALL rights secured to the citizen by the Constitution are not rights, but privileges granted by the state.
Respectfully Sir/Ma'am.....BULL SHIT!
There are quite a number of proud, patriotic U.S. Citizens who reside in countries other than the U.S.A.
Might I suggest you remove your head from the dark place it appears to be inserted and try to widen your scope of understanding.