Can I relinquish my US citizenship and sell it to someone else?
Suppose I decide I want to leave the US forever and take up citizenship in another country. I am a natural born US citizen. If I am no longer going to use my citizenship and the rights and responsibilities that come with it, why couldn't I sell it to someone who wants it bad enough to pay for it?
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Since your citizenship is only yours until you die, what if you sell it to someone younger, and then you move overseas and die? Would their citizenship, purchased from you, evaporate on your death?
Can't sell it.
You cannot sell your citizenship as you don't own it.
You can relinquish your citizenship. Please do it right away as there are plenty of people who would be willing to accept your responsibilities waiting in the wings.
No, you can not. Citizenship is NOT a fungible commodity.
If you want to shed your US citizenship, then please feel free. Become stateless OR go and get citizenship from another nation.
A citizenship is a personal status -- it cannot be sold, though it can be relinquished. Marital status is personal, too; you can relinquish it, but you can't sell it.
Just so you know -- in most cases (not all, but most), relinquishing your US citizenship renders you permanently "inadmissible" within the meaning of the Immigration and Nationality Act. That means, you can't ever enter the United States again. Not ever. Not even for a day. And as a foreign national, you won't be entitled to a visa or a visa waiver.
Citizenship is not an item, it's more of a title. If you earn your doctorate, you have the title of doctor, and that title cannot be sold of you don't want it anymore. Citizenship works the same way.
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