| I've lived in expatriate communities abroad and I think for the most part this is such utter garbage.
If anything the US is guilty of having all these laws on cutting away their expatriate communities. Like our member Bulldogg, if a US citizen living abroad marries a non US citizen abroad, it becomes incredibly difficult for that US citizen to bring his/her family back to the US and live like citizens or permanent legal residents.
These people are some of the smartest, worldly, resourceful and well educated people you can come across and the laws are there so that they are cut off if indeed they do anything more than simply work and return.
Stupid I tell you, stupid.
Seriously, if you lived in Bangladesh for 14 years and you did not naturalize, would you be loyal to Bangladesh over your own country of origin?? I highly doubt it. I HIGHLY doubt it. The only case where loyalties can differ is when the person left their homeland while they were too young or they were actually born abroad. And in the latter cases, they will only be loyal to the new country if they are in fact raised as a part of the local populace and not as a part of the expatriate community.
Anyways... I don't know about this report.
I think it's bulls***.
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