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I know if you're born from a US parent you get citizenship, but what's stopping them from only filing for the birth of a Canadian child in Canada and never ackn
by MeinBlutIstBlau 5y ago
I know if you're born from a US parent you get citizenship, but what's stopping them from only filing for the birth of a Canadian child in Canada and never acknowledging they have American citizenship? As long as you don't get a birth certificate and SSN in the US, the IRS will never know.
- mwarkentin 5y agoI had a birth certificate, my parents thought it would be potentially helpful for me (this was also almost 40 years ago so a lot of these extra compliance requirements didn’t exist back then). We were concerned that my kids would also potentially be US citizens but it seems like I would have to have lived there for some amount of time for that to kick in.
- jfb 5y agoYou do have to apply for an acknowledgement of US citizenship for your kids, and when they're 18, they have the choice of renouncing US citizenship without all the bullshit hassle adults face.