Posted on 12/26/2016 1:11:43 PM PST by rosepetal81
Going home for Christmas is something many local folks living abroad or out of state would love this year. For one East Juniata High School graduate, coming home to the United States from the United Kingdom has not been an option for a year and a half, and he doesn’t know when it will be an option again. U.K. officials tell Adam Kingdon, a 1993 graduate of EJHS, that he is not the United States citizen he thought he was all the years he lived in Central Pennsylvania and more recently near Cleveland, Ohio.
(Excerpt) Read more at lewistownsentinel.com ...
I say we swap him for British Citizen Hussein.
I recognize the possibility that this guy is getting screwed by bureaucrats.
But I also recognize that this is a journalist hit-piece designed to wring sympathy for all of those (actual) illegal immigrants who were brought to the US when they were three and who do not want to be forced to live in their home country (which might not be the UK but which might be ... I don’t know ... Mexico??)
The media is very good at finding sympathetic stories and then using these as the camel’s nose beneath the tent to then casually say — “So ... you admit that amnesty for 20 million illegals is a good idea — right???”
In other words, this story is about a guy living in the UK, but in my opinion, this story is not about a guy living in the UK.
What passport does Mr. Kingdon have?
He’s not black, Muslim, a terrorist, or even a drug dealer. I would not expect the Obama administration to help him return home.
Poorly written article fails to explain the law - what is the legal
basis for the disagreement here?
You are so right.
It’s a safe bet he doesn’t have a US passport, but a British one since he was born in the UK to a UK Father and US mother.
from the article:
“The U.S. Embassy told Grant her son was indeed a citizen because Grant was a citizen.”
She is claiming he is a citizen because “someone” said he was.
Lots of poetic license in her description. Fact is he might have been eligible (with this snapshot of possible info) to apply for US citizenship, but he (or she, on his behalf) never did. The law is VERY clear on this, and no verbal statements have any bearing on citizenship.
This guy is a British citizen.
His mother is a US citizen, so he is also. Article never explains what sort of screwup has caused the problem.
Looks like they’ve corrected the headline at the linked site.
Headline here:
“U.S. citizen fights to get back into the United States”.
Headline there:
“EJHS grad fights to get back in United States”
Subhead:
“Kingdon claims citizenship but denied entry into US”
So it looks like the paper is now willing to admit he doesn’t have citizenship.
I can see why the original headline would confuse you.
The law appears to be clear that this fellow is not a US citizen. He was born in the U.K. to a UK father and a US citizen mother who had not lived in the US since she was 13.
From the State Dept website: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal-considerations/us-citizenship-laws-policies/citizenship-child-born-abroad.html
Birth Abroad to One Citizen and One Alien Parent in Wedlock
A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the INA provided the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child’s birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five years physical presence, two after the age of fourteen, is required. For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen, is required for physical presence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child.)
I hate the filthy globalists who work overtime to denigrate Americans who demand a safe and secure border and make that seem unreasonable.
/No sarcasm of any sort.
I saw it as a plant by Ted Cruz to try to establish that he was a Natural Born Citizen.
Perhaps he should have obtained a US Passport.
As a US citizen born overseas to American parents, I never leave my house without my US Passport.
LOL!
I heard the Queen is a US citizen.
I found another article that explained more fully that his mother has not provided documentation of sufficient US residency.
Because she moved to the UK at 13 and doesn’t have the two years post age 14 US residency that would provide automatic citizenship to her children born abroad.
And he has a minor criminal record.
Not sure where you got such an incorrect view of the law. Perhaps you should spend more time looking at the law, and less time pontificating on the internet.
There is nothing wrong with being a UK citizen. What's your problem with that? Do you hate the UK?
And that’s really one of the only 2 documents that matter, the other being the permanent resident alien permit (the green card).
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