[taxcontrol]

Ok, I will do some of your homework for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Canadian_nationality_law

Look down to: Acquisition and loss of citizenship under the Act

Read the section: “naturalization in Canada after five years’ residence as a landed immigrant”. Note, since Mrs Cruz arrived (landed) in Canada in 1967, Cruz’s parents had lived in Calgary for three years at the time of Sen Cruz’s birth. That means it was not POSSIBLE for Sen Cruz’s mother to have acquired Canadian citizenship. Also note that opening a business in Canada is NOT qualification as Canadian citizenship.

USC Title 8 section 1481 deals with the loss of citizenship status. Nowhere in that section of code is moving to another country result in an automatic loss of citizenship.

[GBA]

Thank you for providing that information. I've read differing time required as being both 3 years and 5 years.

I will accept that his mom might have legally retained her American citizenship up to and beyond Felito's birth in Canada, but that I don't know that for certain, only that Wiki says so.

I do think it's interesting that Cruz had to give up his Canadian citizenship, which is obviously something a "born in America to American citizens" level natural born citizen would not/could not possibly be born with.

But in total honestly? Reading anything written in legal is torture and puts me in brainfreeze. None the less, as a FWIW, I found this regarding Loss of Citizenship and Dual Nationality interesting:

Pursuant to Section 7 of the Citizenship Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-29, Canadian citizenship can be lost only for specific reasons listed in the statute. There are currently only three ways that Canadian citizenship may be lost:

1. failure of second-generation citizens holding citizenship on the basis of birth to Canadians themselves born outside the United States to apply to retain citizenship before reaching age 28 (inapplicable to dual nationality);

2 renunciation of citizenship; and

3 revocation of citizenship which was obtained by fraud (inapplicable to dual nationality).

One might think that taking the renunciatory oath required for U.S. naturalization would constitute a sufficient renunciation to result in a loss of Canadian citizenship. However, this is not the case. Subsection 9(1) of the Citizenship Act requires a person to formally apply to renounce Canadian citizenship. Where an application to renounce is approved, a certificate of renunciation is issued and the applicant ceases to be a citizen after the expiration of the day on which the certificate is issued or such later date as the certificate may specify.

In other words, taking the U.S. oath of allegiance will not result in a loss of Canadian citizenship. A formal application must be filed and approved before renunciation will be effective. If no formal application is made, a Canadian citizen who subsequently naturalizes in the United States will continue to be a citizen of Canada.

That part I put in bold about naturalizing in the US not canceling Canadian citizenship is interesting.

Unfortunately for "Cruz for POTUS", all you've done is further convince me that Cruz is a "Made in Canada" born Canadian who naturalized in America.

So.....what piece of paper tells the United States or anyone else that Ted Cruz is an American citizen?

I'm a natural born American citizen and I have a COLB and other paperwork to verify that fact. I've had to give it to the recruiter when I enlisted, and provide it when I needed a pass port and to apply for clearances needed for work.

What does Cruz use that proves to GovCo that Cruz is one of US? Not a birth certificate. He's Canadian.

What did Cruz use to get a social security number?

Cruz is naturalized American, not natural born American.

I bet his paperwork confirms that fact, which is the truth we, the voters, won't be able to handle...and he knows it.