Certificate of Loss of Nationality

I think you need to add to it that when you do have an appointment, to renounce your citizenship, which as most people know, can only be done when you are outside the United States and personally appear before a U.S. consular officer.

They then do not—that consular officer does not make that determination, but that determination is made by folks back in Washington, D.C. Now, that determination can take three, four, five months before the person who has had that appointment— to renounce their citizenship, then finally receives the approval in the form of a certificate of loss of nationality.

So there is this sort of what I refer to as this no man's land of are you a U.S. citizen, are you not a U.S. citizen? You've had your appointment, you've signed the oath of renunciation, but you have not, it hasn't been formally approved by the U.S.

government.