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To: usconservative

Not sure about that. My friend had her daughter in Germany while hubby was stationed there. The daughter has dual citizenship.


70 posted on 10/30/2018 3:59:33 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Germany may offer the child citizenship, but as a child born overseas to a family on official duty, she is a native born natural US citizen.

The US does not recognize duality. Either you are a US citizen or you are not.

It also depends on where the child was born- if in a US military hospital on US installation, then Germany has no record of her birth, if in a German facility attended by a German physician, then she indeed may have a German BC, but that BC will specify the citizenship of her parents. If the latter, the parents needed to file ( the hospital probably did I while they were there) a form to the US Embassy reporting the “birth of a US Child abroad”, beginning the US State issuance of a BC.

My son was born in a similar situation, but in a US facility, he searched the German records for any reference to his birth in West Germany, there is none. He is a US citizen naturally, by virtue of our official duty there. He has a US State Department BC.


109 posted on 10/30/2018 4:47:02 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: Sacajaweau

This puzzles me too. I married an English woman while stationed in London. We had two children there and I know for a fact that they can claim British citizenship as well as American. I’m not sure if they can be considered natural born U.S. citizens though; I think not. Sure would be nice to have this mess cleared up once and for all. i.e., is Ted Cruz eligible to become President? Are my daughters?


140 posted on 10/30/2018 5:14:46 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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