For example, did he (or other Democrats) express any reservations, or predictions, about how Puerto Ricans would integrate with American society or the military? Was PR's lack of federal voting rights a factor?
The Self-Determination Act of 2021 extends the ability to Puerto Rico to decide its long-term territorial status, allowing them to opt for statehood, free association, or independence.
If PR were to vote in favor of independence from the US, what happens to the citizenship status of Puerto Ricans who moved to the mainland permanently? Would they forfeit their PR citizenship by default, or vice versa? What are some solutions to avoid undesired disassociation or disenfranchisement of stateside natural born Puerto Ricans from their home?
I read that someone born in Puerto Rico is eligible for Spanish citizenship due to it having been a Spanish colony back in the day. Has anyone actually taken advantage of this and moved to Spain, and gotten Spanish citizenship? How was the experience? Was it complicated or difficult?
Regarding the above mentioned document, does someone born in the states with a parent born in PR have the right to apply for this, even if they haven’t lived there themselves?
Also, there’s a warning that you’re voluntarily submitting to the laws of PR by applying.
If you remain elsewhere ie. one of the 50 states, what can you be subject to? Will PR try to tax you, etc?
http://app.estado.gobierno.pr/formularios/CPR001.pdf
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_citizenship
“On 18 November 1997, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, through its ruling in Miriam J. Ramirez de Ferrer v. Juan Mari Brás, reaffirmed the standing existence of the Puerto Rican citizenship, and on 25 October 2006, Puerto Rican Socialist Party president Juan Mari Brás became the first person to receive a Puerto Rican citizenship certificate from the Puerto Rico Department of State. Since 2007, the Government of Puerto Rico has been issuing "Certificates of Puerto Rican Citizenship" to anyone born in Puerto Rico or to anyone born outside of Puerto Rico with at least one parent who was born in Puerto Rico.
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Hi everyone, I have a question regarding Puerto Ricans born between 1898 where Puerto Rico was under America's control and 1917 when they officially became American citizens. For example, my ancestor was born in Puerto Rico in 1907 and I don't know if they would still have been issued Spanish citizenship since they weren't technically American?
Spanish attempt:
Hola! Tengo una pregunta para Puertorriqueños nacidos entre 1898 y 1917. Sabes si ellos tuvieran ciudadanía de Espana porque ellos no les dieron la ciudadanía de los Estado Unidos hasta 1917?
Thank you!/Gracias!
My girlfriend has Puerto Rican citizenship, and is considering moving to Spain. Is residency required, how long would it take, is it possible at all?
Thank you!
I'm Puerto Rican and I have a lot of questions about the American history of my island, particularly about the motivations America had to give Puerto Ricans American citizenship in the first place. Please excuse me for my English, it is not very good.
I understand that the USA needed men for war, and that is often used as an explanation for America to give Puerto Ricans citizenship, but why they didn't just give it to soldiers and their families? I may be wrong, but I don't think the USA even had to make give Rican men American citizenship to send them to war in the first place.
It also seems odd they gave citizenship to people they probably didn't consider white, and yet racism was widespread, legal and common not so long ago in both parties. It seems unlikely they would ever give American citizenship to mix-raced Puerto Ricans, for example, if they were as racist and hateful as often portrait by media and historians. A really multiracial USA was not even in sight.
It also seems that both political parties agreed on giving Puerto Ricans citizenship.
I find this quote from Major General Nelson A. Miles very interesting on the subject. It seems they didn't have a low opinion on the island or its people:
>Spanish troops are retreating from southern part of Puerto Rico. This is a prosperous and beautiful country. The Army will soon be in mountain region. Weather delightful; troops in the best of health and spirit. Anticipate no insurmountable obstacles in future results. Results thus far have been accomplished without loss of a single life
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 82%. (I'm a bot)
> Because Puerto Rico is a territory rather than a state, federal law treats its residents as second-class citizens, depriving them of full voting rights and representation in Washington, as well as equal access to health care and disability benefits.
> Gelpí concluded that the Supreme Court's recent marriage equality decision eroded the old, racist precedents, guaranteeing Puerto Ricans the full privileges of citizenship.
> "Classifying a group of the Nation's poor and medically neediest United States citizens as 'second tier' simply because they reside in Puerto Rico," he explained, "Is by no means rational." To the contrary, it is discriminatory animus against "a politically powerless group." It imposes an "Injury and indignity" that infringes upon "An essential part of the liberty protected by the Fifth Amendment." This "Injury" is not justified by the fact that most Puerto Ricans do not pay federal income tax; taxation status cannot excuse "a citizenship apartheid based on historical and social ethnicity within United States soil."
> Gelpí is essentially challenging the judiciary to consider the possibility that federal discrimination against Puerto Ricans is neither benign nor permissible, but rather a result of racist callousness that the Constitution generally prohibits.
> The federal government could no longer freely single out Puerto Ricans for poor treatment.
> Puerto Ricans deserve better than Trump's malevolence and Congress' neglect.
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Hi everyone, I have a question regarding Puerto Ricans born between 1898 where Puerto Rico was under America's control and 1917 when they officially became American citizens. For example, my ancestor was born in Puerto Rico in 1907 and I don't know if they would still have been issued Spanish citizenship since they weren't technically American?
Spanish attempt:
Hola! Tengo una pregunta para Puertorriqueños nacidos entre 1898 y 1917. Sabes si ellos tuvieran ciudadanía de Espana porque ellos no les dieron la ciudadanía de los Estado Unidos hasta 1917?
Thank you/Gracias !
