[Crusher138]

So...as a courtesy to us un-educated rubes, please list the different categories of citizenship and how one lands in each of the categories.

Thank you.

[jpsb]

see 28 in this thread

[Cboldt]

• birthright citizen [another term for natural born citizen]
• citizen by operation of statute
  • statute provides citizenship attaches at birth when the statutory conditions are met [technically, this is naturalization, even though no naturalization procedure applies. See Rogers v. Bellei, 401 U.S. 815 (1971) for discussion. Most people claim that citizen at birth by operation of statute is the same as natural born citizen]
  • statute provides citizenship attaches after birth, provided the statutory conditions are met [usually referred to as naturalized citizen]

[Cboldt]

I am going to add a category. Some may argue that it is exactly the same as and repetitive of birthright citizen, but there is evidence that the authors of the 14th amendment did not intend for the 14th amendment to affect or change the conditions for attaching birthright/natural born citizen. So, adding the 14th amendment category facilitates discussion of the meaning of the "born in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction" group of 14th amendment citizens. Basically, this group has two components, born in the US to US citizens, and born in the US to aliens.

• birthright citizen [another term for natural born citizen]
• 14th amendment "born in the US" citizen
• citizen by operation of statute
  • statute provides citizenship attaches at birth when the statutory conditions are met [technically, this is naturalization, even though no naturalization procedure applies. See Rogers v. Bellei, 401 U.S. 815 (1971) for discussion. Most people claim that citizen at birth by operation of statute is the same as natural born citizen]
  • statute provides citizenship attaches after birth, provided the statutory conditions are met [usually referred to as naturalized citizen]