citizenship
Renouncing Moroccan citizenship
<p>What can a Moroccan do to renounce their Moroccan citizenship? I have no ties or any affiliations with Morocco nor have I ever been happy to be one, and I despise it. I wasn't even born there in the first place, and I have nothing there, no house, relatives willing to harm me, no property, nothing whatsoever.</p>

<p>I've read somewhere that it's possible and elsewhere it's impossible, but I also heard that ultra rich people have the chance to delete their own records from there and delete their identity or ties completely with the country, hence it's a privilege and it being a privilege says everything about the country</p>

<p>Internationally and with human rights conventions and related-stuff, how can I make renouncement of the above mentioned citizenship?</p>

<p>I can tear off or burn my old passport and my "carte nationale", but I do not know if it's enough</p>

<p>I assume you have Moroccan citizenship by filiation. The relevant law seems to be <a href="https://www.refworld.org/topic,50ffbce524d,50ffbce525c,3ae6b5778,0,,,MAR.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Dahir n° 1-58-250 du 21 safar 1378 (6 septembre 1958) portant la Code de la nationalité marocaine</a>. It is not clear what the actual procedure is. Chapter 4 covers renunciation and involuntary loss (for e.g. insulting the King). Art. 19 includes some possible cases: case 1, an adult Moroccan who has voluntarily acquired a foreign nationality abroad and is authorized by decree to renounce Moroccan nationality. Article 25 indicates that petition the Minister of Justice, who will determine whether the legal conditions are met, and &quot;to assess whether the favor sought is justified from the national point of view&quot;.</p>
<p>However, if you were born in the US (or any other <em>jus soli</em> jurisdiction)  to Moroccan parents, you did not acquire that citizenship voluntarily, in which case if the Minister of Justice is a stickler for detail, you do not satisfy the requirements for renunciation of citizenship.</p>
