You can't just 'renounce' your citizenship. It doesn't work like that.
You need another country to accept you as their citizen, which, believe it or not, other countries are pretty tight on the immigration and they don't let just anyone in. Most of the time you have to be able to prove that you have money, and you can contribute to their society. Like Canada won't just let you be Canadian. You need to be in a field that they currently need. Like a doctor. If you're a low skill guy with no money, the odds of you being a drain on their public system is high and they won't want to take you.
Then, the US has to accept to let you go. Which sometimes, they don't for whatever reason.
Then you have to go through a ceremony to renounce and there needs to be paperwork that the US has signed off on to release you from citizenship. Which, again, is time consuming and annoying.
You don't just get to say 'I'm not a citizen anymore' and it makes it true.
You can't just 'renounce' your citizenship. It doesn't work like that.
You need another country to accept you as their citizen, which, believe it or not, other countries are pretty tight on the immigration and they don't let just anyone in. Most of the time you have to be able to prove that you have money, and you can contribute to their society. Like Canada won't just let you be Canadian. You need to be in a field that they currently need. Like a doctor. If you're a low skill guy with no money, the odds of you being a drain on their public system is high and they won't want to take you.
Then, the US has to accept to let you go. Which sometimes, they don't for whatever reason.
Then you have to go through a ceremony to renounce and there needs to be paperwork that the US has signed off on to release you from citizenship. Which, again, is time consuming and annoying.
You don't just get to say 'I'm not a citizen anymore' and it makes it true.