Extraordinary Naturalization: Edward Snowden, Bobby Fischer, Iceland and Japan
Edward Joeseph Snowden did live & work in Japan Edward Snowden, a contractor for the NSA who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton , has been in the news for the past month and is currently a fugitive from the U.S. law hiding in the transit zone of a Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. He has been looking for a way to leave this area and go to a country where he won't be able to be tried or punished for the crimes that the U.S. government alleges he committed. Standard operating practice for people who flee from the law of their country by going overseas is to freeze/cancel their passports (which does not cancel your citizenship/nationality) so that the only place you can travel to is back to the country that you're a national of (in Snowden's case, back to the United States, into the waiting hands of prosecutors). The problem with applying for asylum for political crimes is the prerequisite of having to be physically present in that country to apply f...