Well, I guess you just need to read U.M. immigration law more fully and carefully. There have been court cases where the court stopped IRS to collect income tax dues from certain people, whose U.S. citisenship were retroactively revoked by the courts per their requests.

As part of executive branch, the State Department will have to issue a new statement to state the changes, if the court so asks. The United States is a country that is ruled by law, and the State Department has no choice by to follow court rulings.

I don't see how my legal opinion has anything to do with blue or green. Ms. Lee simply has a legal right to ask the court to make such a retroactive ruling in her favor.

To ZZZ:

I agree with you. I would have filed paper work to fomally give up the U.S. citizenship 14 years ago if I were Ms. Lee.

From a pure legal standpoint, however, what Ms. Lee has done (working for another government  with pay) also consttitutes another way of giving up her U.S. citizenship as provided in the U.S. immigration law. As result, Ms. Lee has a perfect legal right to ask a U.S. immigration court to cancel her U.S. citizenship, retroactively back to 14 years ago. I do not know if Ms. Lee has done so or not, I just want to point out her legal right under the law of United States. If Ms. Lee would get the court to retroactively cancel her U.S. citizenship, then she has not violated any law in Taiwan, hasn't she?

Under the U.S. immigration law, Ms. Lee has a perfect right to ask the court RIGHT NOW, to declare that she has 'voluntarily" given up her citizenship for 14 years, based on the fact that she has worked for another country with pay contineously for 14 years. The court is very likely to grant her wishes.

The State Department has NO power to grant or cancel citizenship for anybody, it can only certify if a given person is an U.S. citizenship or not, based on its records at the time. When State Department said that "this case is closed", it simply meant that "this case is closed for noe, unless there are changes coming up as ordered by the court". Since United States is a country ruled by law, so the State Department will have to issue another statement to certify that Ms. Lee indeed has voluntarily given up her citizenship retroactively back to 14 years ago, if the court has so determined.

To: jwy

I think it's you that is all wrong.

US has indicated that

1. US has records to indicate that Lee is a US citizen.

2. No records had shown that Lee has given up her US citizenship.

3. This case is closed.

It is so clear that the ball is in Lee Qing Ann's court. It's up to her to show any proof that she had given up US citizenship.

Lee's tactic is to wait indefinitely for US state department's response. She is considering all Taiwanese are all fool! 23million will wait patitently, indefinitely for state department's response,while she is aware that no response will be issued in regards to her citizenship. In the mean time, she can continute to pocket more $$$$$ and wire the money into her acccount in Maryland, USA.

I don't think there will be any response from US state department, since they had indicated "The case is closed"