World Personalities Who Gave Up Foreign Nationalty For Their Own

According to statistics there is a large number of those people who quited foreign nationalities to maintain their original nationality or they did not like to live with second citizenship status. During 2006, mayor of London and former member parliament belonging to Conservative Party Boris Johnson gave up American nationality though he was born in the USA, and thus was American citizen by birth. Acting as a leader of opposition in the Canadian Parliament Staphane Dion has announced that if he was elected as prime minister in the next election, he will leave French citizenship that he got from mother side. One of the 4 founders of Famous social website facebook 30 year Eduardo Saverine has quited American citizenship in September 2011 to evade taxes.
Similarly, the former president of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus quited American citizenship in 1998 for premiership. In Taiwan a 68 year old woman politician Chi Cheng left American nationality in 2009 for working as advisor in the cabinet of former president Ma Ying- Jeou. Canadian 27th lady governor general and Commander- In- Chief of Armed Forces Michalla Jean gave up French citizenship in 2005, before assuming both the responsibilities. Moreover, one of the founders of Citizen's Rights Movement of the USA William Edward Burghardt in the age of 95 quited American nationality in 1963 as a protest.
In addition to these examples, 22 renowned politicians of different countries quited American nationality, among them include 4 from Jamaica, 3 from Taiwan, 2 each from Israel and Ukraine and one each from Dominican Republic, Estonia, India, Berlitz, Australia, Poland, Granada,Greece, Bahamas, and Bulgaria gave up American citizenship.