Voluntariness of Renunciations of Citizenship Under 8 U.S.C. § 1481(a)(6)

Voluntariness of Renunciations of Citizenship Under 8 U.S.C. § 1481(a)(6) A renunciation o f citizenship w ould likely not be held involuntary by a court solely because it was undertaken as part of an agreem ent whereby federal prosecutors agreed not to proceed with denaturalization and deportation proceedings if the subjects of the investigation agreed to renounce their U.S. citizenship. In the analogous context of plea bargaining in criminal cases, courts have consistently held that the threat of greater punishment by prosecutors does not by itself deprive the defendant o f the ability to…