No offense, but this issue requires a lot of study. It is amazing how sure people are about citizenship issues, when in fact, they know almost nothing about it. What they think they know, and are so positive of, is just plain wrong!
Your father, born of U.S. citizen parents, would be a “citizen by birth” regardless of where he was born. He would not need to be naturalized. He couldn't be president, but I'm guessing he never wanted to. YOU, on the other hand would have no issue for NBC, at least on your fathers side, because he always was a citizen from birth.
Only as to eligibility for president & vice president does being a Natural Born Citizen matter. It doesn't make you a better person, or a better citizen.
‘Your father, born of U.S. citizen parents, would be a “citizen by birth” regardless of where he was born. He would not need to be naturalized. He couldn’t be president, but I’m guessing he never wanted to. YOU, on the other hand would have no issue for NBC’
You have just stumbled into saying exactly what is meant - Dad was not born here in the boundaries - but I was! So THAT is the prime issue. Eh?
faucetman:”Only as to eligibility for president & vice president does being a Natural Born Citizen matter. It doesn’t make you a better person, or a better citizen.”
You do bring up an interesting question with this statement. What about the Speaker of the House since he/she would be third in line? Is there any legal requirement that the Speaker be a NBC in order to hold that office? It would be interesting to see how this is handled...