Goodbye to dual citizenship in the United States? A bill aims to require choosing only one country

If approved, the so-called Exclusivity Citizenship Act of 2025 could become one of the most disruptive measures for immigrant communities in the United States.

For Cuban Americans —many of whom retain their country of origin's nationality because the Cuban regime does not allow for an easy renunciation of it and requires it to enter the island— the proposal would imply choosing between their American citizenship and their birth identity.

In this regard, the organization Voto Latino condemned a bill on Wednesday that would prohibit dual citizenship in the United States and urged Congress to reject the initiative, stating that it would force millions of citizens to choose between their legal rights and their identity.

The Exclusive Citizenship Bill of 2025, championed by Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, who is of Colombian descent, would apply to both individuals born in the country and naturalized immigrants, prohibiting them from holding a second nationality, reported EFE.

The proposal states that any U.S. citizen who acquires foreign citizenship would automatically renounce their American citizenship.

"This bill is a direct attack on the multiculturalism that defines our country," stated Voto Latino in a press release.

Moreno, when presenting the proposal, argued that the measure is based on the loyalty that all citizens should have towards the United States.

However, the organization argued that the initiative "manipulates patriotism" and deepens social division by forcing those with dual nationality to "choose a side."

The group advocating for Hispanic rights warned that the measure would sever cultural and familial ties essential to national identity and reflects a political climate in which some lawmakers seek to define who belongs to the country and who does not.

Voto Latino urged Congress to reject the proposal and instead promote bipartisan solutions that protect the constitutional rights of all Americans, regardless of their background.

The initiative could face legal challenges, as the Supreme Court determined in 1967 that Congress does not have the authority to revoke citizenship without the voluntary renunciation of the individual affected, a guarantee protected by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.

So far, it is unclear whether Moreno's project has the necessary support to advance in the Senate, emphasized EFE.