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  2. Relinquishment of United States nationality - Wikipedia

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    Levi Ying stated that the process of regaining U.S. citizenship through naturalization was not very difficult. Ying, a Taiwanese American lawyer who renounced U.S. citizenship to take political office in Taiwan, subsequently re-immigrated to the United States on a petition by his wife (who had remained a U.S. citizen), and applied for ...

  3. Nationalization - Wikipedia

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    For example, in 1945 the French government seized the car-maker Renault because its owners had collaborated with the 1940–1944 Nazi occupiers of France. [ 2 ] Economists distinguish between nationalization and socialization , which refers to the process of restructuring the economic framework, organizational structure, and institutions of an ...

  4. List of former United States citizens who relinquished their ...

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    However, in 1990 the State Department adopted the administrative presumption that "when a U.S. citizen obtains naturalization in a foreign state, subscribes to routine declarations of allegiance to a foreign state, or accepts non-policy level employment with a foreign state", he or she intends to retain U.S. citizenship, overriding the earlier ...

  5. List of nationalizations by country - Wikipedia

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    1868 Nationalisation of inland telegraphs under the General Post Office with the Telegraph Act 1868. [69] 1875 Suez Canal Company - The Egyptian share in the company was bought by the government. 1912 Nationalisation of National Telephone Company under the GPO, apart from Portsmouth and Hull. The Portsmouth telephone service was nationalised ...

  6. History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in ...

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    Processes for naturalization were determined by local county courts. [1] [2] [3] In the course of the late 1800s and early 1900s, many policies regarding immigration and naturalization were shifted in stages to a national level. Court rulings giving primacy to federal authority over immigration policy, and the Immigration Act of 1891.

  7. Renationalization of YPF - Wikipedia

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    YPF was founded in 1922 as the first oil company in the world to be established as a state enterprise. [4] The company grew to become largest in its sector in Argentina, and despite the divestiture of a sizable percentage of its extractive, refining, logistic, and retail infrastructure during its 1993 privatization, YPF in 2012 operated 52% of the nation's refinery capacity [5] and accounted ...

  8. Cable Act - Wikipedia

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    Assuming she could return, if a wife's spouse had naturalized, she could file a petition for naturalization. However, if her spouse was not a citizen of the United States, a wife had to complete the entire naturalization process, including filing a declaration of intention, passing an examination for naturalization and taking a loyalty oath.

  9. Immigration policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The naturalization process was expanded to include African Americans with the Naturalization Act of 1870, but immigration from China was explicitly banned under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. As people from more countries immigrated to the United States, courts were tasked with determining the racial origin of prospective citizens to ...