Agreed! Definately!

Plus it will let the other person know they can stop holding their breath now, they aren't getting in.

I would immediately start using it against the Dead and Permanently Banned. We could clear a lot of requests that way and make it easier to see the active, alive citizens who want citizenship better.
If this got implemented, I suspect there would be a government official appointed to deal with people who wish to know more about why they were rejected.

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I am wholeheartedly behind this. The way the current citizenship system works is nice to prevent PTO's but less than 100% functional. A reject button would round out the system so that you didnt have to let users wait in limbo for nothing.

Also include a reason box so that people KNOW why they got rejected.

Disagree.

All citizens deserve the Right to Citizenship. It's not fare to deny them that Right because you dont like them, etc.

By keeping them on the list, it allows other congressmen to review it before someone selfishly denies due to a personal quarrel.

To the person above me, which is better, having them rejected so they can apply again, or having them hang in limbo for days, weeks, or months?

I would suggest the following changes, though:

1. Allow any citizenship requests made by now-dead or perma-banned citizens to be rejected without limit.

2. Allow any extran requests by an individual to be rejected without limit.

3. Require at least 10% of all congressmen to agree to rejecting a citizen application that does not fall into the above categories, so it is never just one person's decision. It would always take a minimum of two congressmen to reject a normal citizen application.

would love it. i am not a congressman but it would free up our congressmen and women's time.

Agree with Exilious - I propose a compromise. Allow a Reject button, but require the accumulation of at least 5 (some number) of rejections before a citizenship request is truly gone. This would require a significant conspiracy to be exploited in the way he mentions yet would require minimal additional effort to get rid of lulz requests

I can't believe there's even debate over this... without this, applications of the dead, permanently banned, tons of extra applications of people who have already been approved, and those of people who are just joking around will sit, forever, in the list and we'll have to manually sift through that list to find the ones of active, alive players.

I'm not suggesting we ban people from re-applying; on the contrary, people are active and not permabanned would be able to re-apply immediately and contact members of Congress with their concerns.

Also, this proposed change would almost be unnecessary if the requests of dead, permanently banned, and extra applications from the same person automatically disappeared from the list.