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.

Dead and perma banned applications should probably be auto-denied. but a button would be good till then.

@Exilious why should that matter? A person can be approved by just one congressman, why shouldn't a person be rejected by just one congressman?

This is less of a political discussion and more of a beaurocrat discussion.

Obviously, banned and suspended applications should be auto-cancelled.

But making people apply over and over again is quite beaurocratic and will only make people think twice about apply for citizenship.

Perhaps insead of a cancellation button, after a week of sitting in request status, the name be removed and the person must re-apply.

The application tool should be seperated into 3 catagories: "Pending Review" which is where new apps will be placed. "limbo" which is where apps that have been reviewed and denied can sit until either another congressmen goes into the section and accepts it, or after 1 week it is removed. Next section is "Recently Accepted" where accepts from the last 7 days can be found along with who approved them.

That seems reasonable. I definitely agree this needs to be done.

I've added a limit. "Without limit" was just greedy on my part, as I'd liked to be able to go through all 100+ pages of citizenship requests and remove ALL extras, dead, and permanently banned myself (to save everyone else the trouble), but I now realize that it would be a huge mistake for there to not be a limit on this feature.

~If~ names were removed after a week, that would be fine, too. Just anything for all those applications that will never be approved, to get removed. Obviously, with that, there should be a notification sent to the person letting them know that they have to re-apply.

I agree with Astra Kat G's proposal. It's simple and it just makes sense.
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Is it possible that some member of Congress will reject people due to a personal quarrel? Yes. But the rejected person can re-submit unlimited requests. Also, such petty behavior will hurt that member of Congress in the next election.
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I'm sure Congress will have sense enough to appoint a committee (or maybe cabinet position) to decide who gets approved or rejected, and will make sound decisions at least most of the time. Fools and idiots rarely get re-elected. There is too much quality competition out there on the field.
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"People should get beat up for statin' their beliefs."- They Might Be Giants

We could have used this back in China when some dude with Uruguayan citizenship wrote a request in Hungarian for us.

@ "We could have used this back in China when some dude with Uruguayan citizenship wrote a request in Hungarian for us."
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Awesome :)

Exilious is an idiot and an enemy of the eUSA. Great suggestion, let's get more votes!

The reject button idea is great, but the point that it could be abused is also a good one. Require rejection by a minimum of 3 Congress members.

why would we ask for rejections = accept? then we are required to accept #? of apps. How about reserve the right to reject any and all number of apps?

PaminBB, approval can be done by only one Congressman, so why not rejection by only one Congressman?

If we get some idiot in Congress who wants to maniacally reject everyone he sees, or the same person over and over again, all we have to do is wait him/her out until he/she runs out of rejections.

That's why I added a limit of rejections equal to the number of acceptances to my Suggestion, Mojo Condor. :)

Each term, every Congressman gets a limited number of acceptances (in my case, due to the specific set of population/region circumstances, it was 32) so I think it'd make sense that you'd only have a limit of the same number of rejections (that way, when they go to add this, they don't have to come up with a band new formula to calculate maximum allowance of rejections).

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I agree 100%

Too bad we don't have a Customs ability to expel persona no gratas either.

Dead, permanently banned, duplicate applications, and applicants no longer in the country should be automatically removed from the list.

An accumulation of 5 rejections should remove the application and prevent a reapplication for 30 days.