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Parviz Malakouti-Fitzgerald
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Insights on dual citizenship, passports, freedom, and sovereignty. Lawyer at Malakouti Law.
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PMF 7 months ago
NEW CITIZENSHIP = NEW ATTACK VECTOR (EXTRATERRITORIALITY) Becoming citizen of a new country usually introduces a whole new set of laws that apply to you extraterritorially. That’s a new attack vector. The more people who know which set(s) of laws apply to you extraterritorially is an attack vector multiplied. With the rise of AI, synthesis of this info and attempted weaponization of prosecution of a person’s country(s) against them is inevitable. The elements are: 1. Knowledge of your enemy’s conduct or alleged conduct; 2. Knowledge of your their country(s) of citizenship; 3. Synthesis of the laws of their country(s) of citizenship. #3 is being rapidly, cheaply made available by AI. You can protect yourself by withholding element #2 (new citizenships). Keep new citizenships you pick up close to your chest. BTW, this attempted weaponization is already happening, albeit on a crude level mostly only to people who are highly visible and controversial. I predict that’s going to change in the coming years.
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PMF 7 months ago
Central Europe Citizenship by Descent Reminder: If you have a great grandparent born in the territory of modern day Slovakia, you very likely qualify for Hungarian 🇭🇺 citizenship by descent if you learn the language, and you may qualify for Slovak 🇸🇰citizenship by descent too (no language language required). Both are EU countries. 🇪🇺
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PMF 7 months ago
Good week last week at Malakouti Law. - One U.S. green card approval (marriage-based AOS) ✅ - One successful FBI IdHS background check challenge (expunged conviction) ✅ - One Slovak citizenship by descent approval (grandchild of Czechoslovak citizen)✅
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PMF 7 months ago
Navigating a bureaucratic logjam at ground level (without litigation) is essentially about 2 critical steps: 1. finding who actually has the authority to help you, and 2. persistently but politely staying on them, while shaking off attempts to send you to you to the GLD - the "Get Lost Department.
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PMF 7 months ago
#mobilitymeme Monday image
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PMF 11 months ago
#mobilitymeme Monday image
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PMF 11 months ago
Ultimately, history never sides with the “papers, please” bootlickers.
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PMF 11 months ago
Not so long ago, "prepper culture" used to be viewed as an edgy, paranoid, sorta right winger thing not too many people were into. Now, this Reuters article claims 20M Americans are preppers, including "people considered left-of-center politically." Take away the negative stigmas, and prepping culture is just part of a philosophy of self-sufficiency, freedom, and non-reliance on government. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/prepping-disaster-diversifies-more-americans-lose-trust-2024-03-09/
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PMF 11 months ago
Mobility prepping is the extension of short-distance bug out prepping, and a new frontier of prepper culture. Being able to bug out of your city, state, or country immediately if necessary. This requires birth certificates & marriage certificates, apostilles, valid IDs, citizenships, residencies, passports, & bitcoin. To be prepared in 2025, these go right next to the med kit, firearm, ammo, multi-tool, aquatics, and canned foods. 1) bug-in, 2) bug-out, and 3) country exit each require different (but partially overlapping) tools and different set of preparedness heuristics. image
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PMF 11 months ago
Regarding the hypothetical consequences of no birthright citizenship, would INA 237(a) even apply to “aliens” born in the United States? They were not “admitted to” the United States. image
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PMF 11 months ago
AUSTRALIAN LAWMAKER CLAIMS INABILITY TO RENOUNCE AFGHAN CITIZENSHIP Article 44 of the Australian constitution prohibits foreign citizens (including dual citizens) from serving in Parliament. “Payman said she had tried to renounce her Afghan citizenship in 2021. She explained the Taliban takeover prevented the Afghan Embassy from finalising her application. She urged Hanson to take up the matter with the Taliban.” —> Opt-out ability is nearly as important as opt-in ability (perhaps AS important). https://x.com/parvizmalakouti/status/1881033323721703692?s=46&t=6tY61DeU36AfeOwpVn9Mmg
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PMF 0 years ago
You can avoid disclosing your home address all over the place by using your U.S. passport card instead of your driver license/state ID for official purposes within the U.S. The card is the same size as a driver license and fits easily in the wallet.
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PMF 1 year ago
#mobilitymeme Monday image
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PMF 1 year ago
10s of millions with enough immigration info to be dangerous; only thousands with enough info to know how it actually works.
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PMF 1 year ago
Eventually large mobility content creators will bitterly realize it was a big mistake to use “passport” and “citizenship” interchangeably for years in thousands of content pieces and will have to start editing old articles en masse so they make some sense for readers moving forward.
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PMF 1 year ago
Another FBI background check (IdHS) successfully challenged and updated today to reflect an expungement. ✅