Those who don’t comply would automatically lose American citizenship under Sen Moreno’s bill.
By Catholics for Catholics
To be or not to be.
That is the question Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is posing, as he introduced a bill, known as the Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025, that would end dual citizenship in the United States.
According to Fox News, the bill’s language asserts that a U.S. citizen holding a foreign citizenship “may create conflicts of interest and divided loyalties.”
In other words, if this bill passes, it would require a person with U.S. citizenship and that of another country to give up one or the other.
“One of the greatest honors of my life was when I became an American citizen at 18, the first opportunity I could do so,” Moreno said in a press release from his office. “It was an honor to pledge an Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America and ONLY to the United States of America! Being an American citizen is an honor and a privilege—and if you want to be an American, it’s all or nothing. It’s time to end dual citizenship for good.”
Moreno was born in Colombia but renounced his Colombian citizenship. Current law permits Americans to hold citizenship both at home and abroad and does not require that a person choose one allegiance over the other.
According to Fox News, Moreno’s bill is in line with the broader fabric of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration in the U.S., and it isn’t the first time that a lawmaker has wanted to do away with dual-citizenship laws.
Moreno’s legislation would require that the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) create databases and rules to track and enforce the change in citizenship law.
It would concede Americans who hold dual citizenship one year after its passing to either write to the secretary of state for a rejection of their foreign citizenship or notify DHS of their intent to denounce their U.S. citizenship.
If a person does not comply with the change within the year, they will automatically be considered to have relinquished their U.S. citizenship.
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