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Huh. It's just occurred to me that Superman was an illegal alien... I'm not all that well versed in comic book lore though; did he ever actually get naturalized

• pavlov 3y ago
  Didn’t he land on Earth as a baby in the 1920s and get adopted by the couple that found him? I’d guess quite a lot of babies were born outside of hospitals back then. Getting a birth certificate for a baby probably wasn’t terribly hard.
• krapp 3y ago
  According to Reddit[0]: The Nationality Act of 1940 basically says if someone presumably under 5 is found in the US, theyre a citizen unless theyre proven to be from another country. In a couple stories he's granted honorary citizenship. The Nationality Act of 1940 is apparently a thing[1]. Of course it depends on the storyline. In one, Superman renounces his American citizenship while Clark Kent kept it. [0]https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/6kgr6r/dc_is_superman_legally_a_us_citizen/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/6kgr6r/d... [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality_Act_of_1940 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality_Act_of_1940
  • autoexec 3y ago
    > if someone presumably under 5 is found in the US, theyre a citizen unless theyre proven to be from another country. The flying and susceptibility to kryptonite is a dead giveaway.
    • krapp 3y ago
      Kryptonite maybe, but to be fair in the DC universe flying humans aren't unheard of.