My father was born in Washkoutz, Bukovina in 1910, which was
then Austro-Hungary. When he left in the mid 1920s it was Romania, but
because he did not perform military service, he was later unable to get a
passport and became stateless. He was able to travel however on a
LaIssaz-Passer issued in Cura=C3=A7ao, which essentially indicated he had a=
home
there to return to. When he was stuck in Japan during WWII, he was treated
as a "friendly" nation because of his birth in Romania, an Axis country,
rather than as a Dutch resident. The Japanese wanted to trade my mother
for four Japanese in Colombia, as she had a Colombian passport, acquired
through her father's naturalization there. But she chose to remain with my
father in Kobe. My father's status helped them to avoid internment and
suffering. Then In the early 1950's, my father's Romanian origin again
served him as the Romanian visa quota to the U.S. was undersubscribed.
However, he returned to Cura=C3=A7ao after briefly immigrating and shortly
thereafter acquired Panamanian citizenship and a Panamanian passport.
On Monday, July 6, 2015, Fred Weisinger <fredweisinger16_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> What happens when you are declared stateless ???
>
> Fred.Weisinger
>
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