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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
John Tyler was a citizen under the 1790 naturalization act, which, by the way, limited citizenship to whites.
Tyler was a naturalized citizen?
Are you serious?
No, you imbecile, I am saying you cannot remain a Muslim and become a citizen of the United States of America because Muslims advocate the overthrow of the United States of America.
Try laying off the hemp before noon, next time
I'm just telling you what law he was a citizen under. Read the law.
You're the imbecile. If the individual is born in the US and subject to US laws, that individual is a citizen. The little newborn baby might "advocate the overthrow of the United States" in his little baby way, but the baby is subject to the laws and jurisdiction of the United States and is a citizen under the 14th Amendment.
yikes
So, firstly, his family was here at the Shah's bequest, de facto a guest of The Company. That's not exactly "diplomatic relations" with a neutral or foreign country. That is someone as a "military student" that was expected to serve US interests back in Iran.
Secondly, mistake-in-law can lay secondary to mistake-in-fact, where he was granted citizenship, a SSN, he's paid taxes, and made exponentially more of himself than non-citizen grifters with fake (or stolen) SSNs who have never paid taxes but have taken taxpayer money ... the solution is simple, he takes the citizenship test at the front of the line. Problem solved.
First off, whether you're born or visiting, you are subject to our laws while here, unless you are a diplomat with credentials. But it doesn't make them a citizen of the U.S.
Here's a link to Justia about this exception for sedition -
A diplomat is NOT subject to US laws, hence “diplomatic immunity”.
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