charletonheston34
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My parents were both born in Iran and immigrated to the US as refugees after the 1979 revolution in Iran. I am now applying to USNA and NROTC, but I don't know what to do about my dual citizenship. I obviously don't have any loyalties to Iran (especially in light of the carnage they are causing around the middle east), but there is an added difficulty in terms of giving up my Iranian citizenship. It can't be done. The iranian government doesn't recognize its citizens' ability to give up their citizenship. So there's no process for renouncing citizenship. I've heard that one can write a letter renouncing citizenship and send it to the Iranian embassy (and show it to whomever in the Navy prior to mailing it), and that showing that intent is enough to do it, but I don't know.
Some more background - I have been to Iran a few times as a minor, visiting some really distant family in the Kurdish part, and I visited once after I became an adult. The only passport I have was acquired for me by my parents while I was a minor, but it's valid until 2016, I believe. This question is so complicated that I don't even know whom to contact. Any advice would be nice. Thanks
Some more background - I have been to Iran a few times as a minor, visiting some really distant family in the Kurdish part, and I visited once after I became an adult. The only passport I have was acquired for me by my parents while I was a minor, but it's valid until 2016, I believe. This question is so complicated that I don't even know whom to contact. Any advice would be nice. Thanks