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Citizenship does not really work that way. I suspect your 'friend' was exaggerating things somewhat! He would have been granted whatever citizenship his mother
by grkvlt 10y ago
Citizenship does not really work that way. I suspect your 'friend' was exaggerating things somewhat!
He would have been granted whatever citizenship his mother had, by that country, since he lived there while growing up. Any rights or penalties associated with the US citizenship would only come into play if he actively sought them out, having first gone to a US embassy and explicitly obtained citizenship for himself. Generally the only reason to do that is if one intends to move to and live in the USA.
- FireBeyond 10y agoAnd I believe that most countries do not share citizenship databases (as opposed to passport databases), so it would not be noted.
- waterphone 10y agoIt absolutely does in the U.S., if you are born in any U.S. territory you are automatically a U.S. citizen and do not have to do anything to further establish it beyond that point.
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- dudul 10y agoIt does work that way in the US, don't patronize me. When someone is born on US soil, they automatically get US citizenship and US birth certificate from the hospital. This is a very common problem for people who acquired US citizenship this way, I encourage you to use Google instead of calling people liars.
- grkvlt 10y agoWelp. Having just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American all I can say is that the USA is insane...