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Guam residents who have parental ties to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) may be eligible to obtaining dual citizenship if an amendment in FSM’s constitution passes.
The potential change is one of eight adopted amendments approved during the FSM’s fourth constitutional convention, in July. President David Panuelo, through an executive order issued Sept. 6, established a public education task force to “familiarize voters with the legal, practical and related issues involved with the amendment, either in favor or against the proposed amendments.”
Panuelo’s office said a vote on the amendments, set to be taken during a special election, may occur as soon as July 2023.
A release from the constitutional convention explained the dual citizenship amendment, labeled Proposal 4-05, would authorize FSM citizenship to people with one or both parents who are citizens of the nation. Those “who lost their citizenship because they failed or were unable to renounce their citizenship of a foreign country,” may also have their citizenship restored through the amendment.
Guam Residents from FSM may choose to weigh in on the proposals.
The FSM president’s office told The Guam Daily Post that “all eligible voters are able to participate” in the upcoming special election, “whether they live in the FSM, Guam, Hawaii or the U.S. mainland.”