Law Professor, @templelaw. Most recent book - Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford UP 2019).
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Read here: globalcit.eu/weaponized-citi…
Many thanks to our contributors! @AfterTheState @JDzankic @RamGanohariti @TJacobOwens @LiorErez @Nooralori @BronwenManby @LindseyKingsto3 @ellie_knott Rainer Bauböck and Neha Jain!
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Thanks to James Lieber and Peter Spiro for this article recognizing the problems faced by #Americansabroad in an #FBAR, #FATCA + @citizenshiptax world: "U.S. Expats Face Taxation Without Representation by James E. Lieber and @AfterTheState wsj.com/articles/u-s-expats-… via @WSJopinion
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Can Japan resist dual citizenship?
Apr 4 from 6:30PM | TUJ, Room 313
Peter J. Spiro, Charles R. Weiner Professor of Law at @TempleLaw, will be discussing Japan's resistance to dual citizenship
More info at: tuj.ac.jp/icas
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Today we were joined #ipol326 @GUQatar by @AfterTheState from @TempleUniv to discuss his book & a plethora of issues, ranging from statelessness to naturalizations & dual citizenship, how #COVID19 even affected premium passports, and future of supranational citizenship.
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🚨 New contribution to our #forum debate "Weaponized Citizenship: Should intl law restrict oppressive nationality attribution?"
@AfterTheState asks how oppressive citizenship can actually be, assessing the costs for individuals and states.
Read at:
globalcit.eu/weaponized-citi…
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As violent right-wing extremism rises, Prof. Peter Spiro, @AfterTheState, says that dual citizenship, once a curiosity, has become an insurance policy for Americans in marginalized groups. bit.ly/3X2iAYZ
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Armenia: the budget option for Russians looking to exit imidaily.com/editors-picks/a…
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NEW: Supreme Court declines to hear bid to overturn racist Insular Cases, rejecting case on whether American Samoans should get birthright citizenship
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🇲🇹⚖🇪🇺 #BREAKING: The @EU_Commission has today referred #Malta to the European Court of Justice for its investor citizenship scheme.
The European Commission considers ‘golden passports' incompatible with the TFEU principle of sincere cooperation and concept of Union citizenship.
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Current wait times at embassies for a visitor visa to the US:
857 days — Bogota
850 days — Abuja
848 days — Mumbai
833 days — New Delhi
800 days — Guadalajara
780 days — Chennai
771 days — Panama City
767 days — Kolkata
737 days — Lagos
731 days — Kinshasha
722 days — Nogales
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More: “Russia may refuse to acknowledge dual nationals’ U.S. citizenship, deny their access to U.S. consular assistance, prevent their departure from Russia, and conscript dual nationals for military service,” the alert said.
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An informative thread on dual citizenship and conscription in practice @AfterTheState
Since the #MobilizationInRussia & #UkraineRussiaWar several observations related to (dual) #citizenship can be made.
Will populate 🧵 as things develop. 1. While some countries ban DualCit, others follow master-nationality rule=dual citizenship is not recognised.
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100 years ago #OnThisDay an intergovernmental conference convened by Fridtjof #Nansen, as High Commissioner for #Refugees, agreed on a model certificate of identity for stateless refugees [thread👇]
The #NansenPassport was born #Nansen100
📷 1927 British issued Nansen Passport
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Not to be missed: important publication and thread on #IusSoli in Italy by @VDonnaloja & @maartenpvink
@GlobalCIT_EUI @EUI_GlobGovProg
📢Why do people support/oppose territorial birthright citizenship (ius soli)? @maartenpvink and I address this question for Italy, where citizenship reform is urgent. Pre-print on 👇researchgate.net/publication…
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When people have passport privileges, they usually don't know how difficult, costly, and emotionally draining the visa process is. Here’s our story, which has a relatively happy ending compared to the experiences of many of our other colleagues from GS. (3)
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The @LordsJHACom also received written evidence on the LIUK Test from @DVBartram, @thom_brooks, @BuggeEdit, @AfterTheState, @ZoeBantleman (@ILPAimmigration), @BronwenManby, @Clarkey_123 and @BridgetByrne3.
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Important judgement by Dutch high court @RaadvanState - to reverse deprivation of nationality from mother associated with ISIS because her children's family & private life would be impacted and decisions must comply with #bestinterests of the child raadvanstate.nl/actueel/nieu…
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🔺 NEW: A Russian tennis player has circumvented Wimbledon’s ban on all competitors from her country by changing her nationality to Georgian thetimes.co.uk/article/russi…
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Very happy to have put together this @EUI_Schuman / Global #Citizenship Governance working paper on the opportunities and challenges of comparing citizenship policies at the global level! Many thanks to all the contributors ✍️🥳 cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/74…
