[quote]Originally posted by Virgil:
EddieR,
>>Mari Bras has no PRican citizenship according to the State Department. Although he was initially allowed to renounce his US citizenship, that decision was later revoked since the State dept. realized the effects of such a decision would trigger a chain reaction among people like yourself....
It may sound strange, but what the State Dept said was that there is no way a puertorican may renounce his/her citizenship and still live in Puerto Rico.<<
The State Dept. or more accurately the Dept. of the Interior does not have the authority to revoke a decision of the Puerto Rican Supreme Court. It has the authority to revoke however the status of ELA or commonwealth and it did so in recinding the U.S. federal law #600 and returned P.R. back to square one as an unincorporated territory which it is to this very moment.
The Commonwealth is defunct in P.R., although many populares will not face that reality and continue as though P.R. is still a commonwealth which it is NOT!
The Puerto Rican Supreme Court decision has not been overturned in Puerto Rico, nor in the United States either where it could be challenged legally in the judicial branch of gov't headed by the U.S. Supreme Court. But up to this time, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeals backed by the Dept. of the Interior of the State dept.because the Dept. of the Interior does not have jurisdiction over the Judiciary in P.R. or in the U.S. either.
Juan Mari Bras continues to this day a citizen of the Island-Nation of Puerto Rico, and is completely protected by the Puerto Rican Supreme Court decision.
He does not have to leave P.R. to renounce anything. Such antiquated rules of the Dept. of the Interior are from the days of the guacaras and are totally obsolete since the Judiciary of Puerto Rico rendered its decision in favor of Mari Bras.
Take care,
EddieR #1
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