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Subject: Re: Citizenship

Author:
Arthur Keith

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Date Posted: 17:56:16 06/14/15 Sun
In reply to: Jon 's message, "Re: Citizenship" on 22:29:28 05/31/15 Sun

>>You had the lawyer in "Distant Shores" say that the
>>mother and child were not citizens. That is true for
>>the mother, Mary.
>
>Looking for clarification more than anything else.
>
>How is US citizenship granted or "transferred"?
>
>This is related to a grandnephew. Grandnephew was born
>in Grenoble, France last summer (cute kid BTW, but I'm
>biased) to a US citizen (father) and French citizen
>(mother).
>
>Does grandnephew "carry" dual French-USA citizenship?
>
>Now to throw a wrench into the works......say sometime
>in the future grandnephew decides to run for US
>President (POTUS), similar to Ted Cruz. Is grandnephew
>considered a "natural born" citizen? Does grandnephew
>renounce his French citizenship? And to further muddy
>the question, let's say grandnephew pretty much stays
>in France until adulthood (or beyond). How does that
>(in France 'til adulthood) affect eligibility for
>POTUS?
>
>I understand this is more semantics than anything
>else. With all of the furor about Barak Obama and the
>birther movement and more than a little interest in
>how John McCain born in the US Panama Canal Zone to
>USA citizen parents were "eligible" for POTUS. Obama
>was born in a US state, Hawaii, to USA and Kenyan
>parents. For John McCain it gets "interesting" as he
>was born in a USA protectorate, Panama Canal Zone, of
>USA citizens.
>
>Please note I do NOT want to start a flame war or
>anything similar. This is one of "those" questions
>I've pondered over the last few years and have not
>found a clear explanation.

Just a late note. I was born in The Netherlands at the end of World War 2. My father was American, my mother Dutch. My birth was registered at the consulate soon afterwards by my mother, my dad did not stay around long enough. I did however received both Dutch and US citizenship and was able to keep both. Came in handy during my time in the US Army as I was able to travel for them to East Germany on my Dutch passport.

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