{"id":23761,"date":"2026-01-16T02:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=23761"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:37:23","slug":"if-it-will-pass-the-prophecy-will-be-fellfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/if-it-will-pass-the-prophecy-will-be-fellfield\/","title":{"rendered":"If it will pass, the prophecy will be full field"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New Bill Could Ban Dual Citizenship in the U.S. Here\u2019s What It Means for Travelers <\/em>Dual citizenship<\/a> has always been an impressive status symbol, but a new bill aims to change that, hoping to eliminate the possibility of holding passports from more than one country.\u00a0<\/em>The\u00a0Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025<\/a>, introduced by Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on Dec. 1, seeks to establish \u201ccitizens of the United States… owe sole and exclusive allegiance to the United States.\u201d If passed, the bill would force U.S. citizens with dual foreign citizenship to choose between the two.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Under the bill, U.S. citizens who also possess a foreign citizenship would be required to submit a written renunciation of one of those nationalities within one year. U.S. citizens who acquire another citizenship in the future would also “be deemed to have relinquished United States citizenship.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The bill is currently in the early stages of the legislative process and has been moved to the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to Congress. GovTrack.us, which tracks the status of congressional bills,\u00a0estimated<\/a>\u00a0the citizenship bill has a 7 percent chance of getting past committee and a 3 percent chance of being enacted.<\/em><\/p>\n

Moreno, who was born in Bogota, Colombia, and moved to the U.S. at 5 years old,\u00a0said in a statement<\/a>\u00a0last month allowing U.S. citizens to maintain foreign citizenship would create a conflict of interest.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the greatest honors of my life was when I became an American citizen at 18, the first opportunity I could do so,\u201d Moreno said. \u201cIt was an honor to pledge an Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America and ONLY to the United States of America! Being an American citizen is an honor and a privilege\u2014and if you want to be an American, it\u2019s all or nothing.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Currently, the law allows U.S. citizens to hold multiple foreign citizenships in addition to their U.S. citizenship,\u00a0according to the Department of State<\/a>. Several countries offer\u00a0citizenship by investment<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0citizenship by descent<\/a>, allowing people to apply for a second passport if a grandparent or even great-grandparent held citizenship. And some countries are\u00a0easier to become citizens of<\/a>\u00a0than others: Portugal and Italy, for example, are notably easier than some other nations.<\/em><\/p>\n

However, the State Department said U.S. travelers who hold two passports must enter and leave the U.S. with their U.S. passport. The department also noted some countries may not permit dual nationality and may not recognize a traveler’s U.S. nationality when they are abroad.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A New Bill Could Ban Dual Citizenship in the U.S. Here\u2019s What It Means for Travelers Dual citizenship has always been an impressive status symbol, but a new bill aims to change that, hoping to eliminate the possibility of holding passports from more than one country.\u00a0The\u00a0Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025, introduced by Sen. Bernie Moreno<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47471,"featured_media":23762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23764,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions\/23764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}