Posted on 11/28/2023 7:38:54 AM PST by 11th_VA
A 61-year-old Virginia doctor who was born in the US has been stripped of his citizenship - all because of his late father's status as an Iranian diplomat at the time of his birth.
Siavash Sobhani became stateless when he tried to renew his passport in June this year - with officials telling him that he never should have been granted American citizenship in 1960, according to the Washington Post.
The State Department informed him that babies born in the US to parents with diplomatic immunity - which his father enjoyed as an Iranian Embassy employee at the time - shouldn't automatically acquire citizenship.
Typically, all babies born in the US are given citizenship.
The State Department's move comes despite Sobhani being a respected doctor, sporting an impressive roster of 3,000 active patients after gaining degrees from George Washington University, Boston College and Georgetown Medical School.
He's lived in the US - Virginia and DC - for his entire life, apart from a small portion of his childhood when his family relocated to Turkey. His brother Rob Sobhani, 63, even ran for Senate in Maryland in 2012.
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Doesn’t Camela Harris fall into this same category? Born of diplomats?
So just sneak into Mexico, then openly cross the US border and declare “I’m here!”
Exactly …
His troubles are at the insistence of Tehran.
No, her parents were a research physician and a Stanford professor. She was quite an underachiever, given her parents.
Can he get a green card?
How would he have been given citizenship in 1960 if he is currently 61?
“She was an underachiever, given her parents.”
I wouldn’t say that. Her thesis on Venn diagrams was nothing short of brilliant.
Good question. I wonder if his parents retracted his US citizenship even though he was born here. And listed him as Iranian.
So, a U.S.-born individual obliged to rely on (in the 14th Amendment) a glorified species of naturalization to prove they are a member of our polity obtains, at best, a potentially revocable citizenship.
Surely this individual was never a Natural Born Citizen of the U.S.
Can he get a green card?
Biden put Kamala Harris in charge of performing that calculation.
The headline is a bit misleading. He wasn't stripped of his citizenship. He never should have been recognized as a citizen in the first place.
Oh the Irony.
Here we have a man born in the US to a foreign nation and he gets his citizenship revoked.
Whereas another man in the same situation gets to be the President of the US.
“How would he have been given citizenship in 1960 if he is currently 61?”
That’s a very good question. If you were taught “common core” math you would know the answer.
An individual born in the US is automatically a US natural citizen, UNLESS their parents were diplomats.
“Children of diplomats are explicitly exempted from ‘birthright’ citizenship ***under the 14th Amendment***”
Not explicit under 14A.
“His troubles are at the insistence of Tehran.”
I agree, it is more of Biden/Garland selective prosecutions, even though I think it is the correct application of the law.
Probably made the mistake of registering as an “R”
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