Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 11:48am on 29 Nov 2023,Wednesday International
A shocking case saw a US-based doctor stripped of citizenship after over 30 years of practicing in America because his late father was an Iranian diplomat when he was born in the country 62 years ago. Siavash Sobhani only discovered his statelessness in a letter saying officials had by mistake granted him citizenship as an infant, not automatically available due to his father's diplomatic immunity then. "I'm a doctor, I've paid my taxes, voted for presidents...so it's really shocking to be told after 61 years there was a mistake," a dumbfounded Sobhani told The Washington Post. Having renewed his passport regularly with no issues earlier, it was an unprecedented blow that suddenly canceled his legal status in his only home despite over three productive decades of community service.
