&gt;&gt; These are both untrue.<p>&gt;&gt; I&#x27;m not aware of a single American individual who gave up their citizenship for politics (and I work in this field).<p>Firstly I&#x27;m not sure which &#x27;both&#x27; are untrue, as I had 3 points, so your response is a little confusing.<p>Politics:  There where some number of American men who where wanting dodge the American draft before it was abolished in 1973, particular in the 60 and 70s.  I suspect some number of draft-dodgers renounced their American citizenship.  Similarly, some number of American women did not want their children to be subject to the draft, and didn&#x27;t agree with American wars, so they too moved away, and renounced their American Citizenship--I know some women for who this is absolutely the case.  I also know some people who currently reside outside of the US who would renounce their American citizenship were Trump to be elected president.  I would say all of these example falls under the board heading of &quot;politics&quot;.<p>I would agree that it is currently the policy of the US Government not to make individuals renounce their citizenship where they to become a citizen of another country, but I do not know the history.  It is that other countries do make new citizen renounce their other citizenship(s); Singapore, for example.  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Renunciation_of_citizenship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Renunciation_of_citizenship</a><p>Similarly, if Singapore citizen was to obtain American Citizenship, s&#x2F;he would have to renounce their Singaporean Citizenship.