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U.S; Return Refused (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 20. Thomas Jolley, who fled to Canada because he opposed the Vietnam war, became a man without a country when the United States Government stripped him of his American citizenship. Although Mr Jolley, aged 26, formally renounced his citizenship before United States consular officials in Toronto in 1967, he later tried to return to the United States. He was detained in Detroit by immigration authorities but later released. The Board of Immigration Appeals yesterday ruled that the United States now considered him an alien who, lacking a visa, could not come home again. If upheld by the United States courts, the ruling could mean that many of the thousands of draft-dodgers who have sought a haven in Canada, Sweden and elsewhere and renounced their citizenship may find the way barred if they have a change of heart and try to come back.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32253, 23 March 1970, Page 7
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150WITHOUT COUNTRY Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32253, 23 March 1970, Page 7
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