{"id":12016,"date":"2025-12-03T14:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=12016"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:54:04","slug":"ohio-senator-introduces-measure-to-eliminate-dual-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=12016","title":{"rendered":"Ohio senator introduces measure to eliminate dual citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Related video: DC Bureau: Immigration Changes after National Guard Shooting<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbn.com\/news\/ohio\/sen-moreno-introduces-bill-that-would-eliminate-dual-citizenship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WKBN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WKBN<\/a>) \u2013 Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) has introduced a bill to establish that citizens of the United States \u201cmust have sole and exclusive allegiance to the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u201c<span>Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025<\/span>\u201d would make it so that no one may be a citizen or national of the U.S. while simultaneously having any foreign citizenship. If passed, a U.S. citizen who voluntarily acquires foreign citizenship would have to relinquish their U.S. citizenship after the date of enactment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Those who have <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/legal\/travel-legal-considerations\/Relinquishing-US-Nationality\/Dual-Nationality.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:dual citizenship;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">dual citizenship<\/a> would have to submit a written renunciation of foreign citizenship to the secretary of State or a written renunciation of U.S. citizenship to the secretary of Homeland Security no later than one year after the enactment of the act.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"my-4\" \/>\n<hr class=\"my-4\" \/>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An individual who doesn\u2019t comply will be deemed to have voluntarily relinquished United States citizenship for purposes of section <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/legal\/travel-legal-considerations\/us-citizenship\/Renunciaton-USCitizenship-persons-claiming-right-residence.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:349(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">349(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act<\/a>, the bill states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbn.com\/politics\/ap-politics\/ap-tennessee-voters-make-final-call-in-house-special-election-testing-trumps-power\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tennessee voters make final call in House special election testing Trump\u2019s power;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Tennessee voters make final call in House special election testing Trump\u2019s power <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The secretary of State would also be required to create regulations, procedures for declaration, verification and recordkeeping for exclusive citizenship, as well as coordinate with the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure any individual deemed to have relinquished citizenship is \u201cappropriately recorded in Federal systems and treated as an alien for purposes of the immigration laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBeing an American citizen is an honor and a privilege \u2014 and if you want to be an American, it\u2019s all or nothing. It\u2019s time to end dual citizenship for good,\u201d Moreno said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If passed, the bill would take effect 180 days after enactment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Multiple Supreme Court cases have been instrumental in establishing dual citizenship as a constitutional right, including <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/3\/133\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Talbot v. Jansen;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Talbot v. Jansen<\/a> (1795), which ruled that U.S. citizens who acquire foreign citizenship do not have to waive their U.S. citizenship, and <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/387\/253\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Afroyim v. Rusk;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Afroyim v. Rusk<\/a> (1967), which ruled that a U.S. citizen cannot lose their citizenship unless they willingly surrender it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the U.S. government doesn\u2019t keep statistics on dual citizens, it\u2019s estimated that more than 40 million Americans, many of whom are Mexican-Americans, are eligible for dual citizenship, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/internationalliving.com\/your-right-to-a-second-passport-through-family-ties-trl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:International Living;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">International Living<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) has introduced a bill to establish that citizens of the United States \u201cmust have sole and exclusive allegiance to the U.S.\u201d The \u201cExclusive Citizenship Act of 2025\u201d would make it so that no one may be a citizen or &#8230; <a title=\"Ohio senator introduces measure to eliminate dual citizenship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=12016\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ohio senator introduces measure to eliminate dual citizenship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ohio-senator-introduces-measure-to-eliminate-dual-citizenship.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12018,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016\/revisions\/12018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}