We were in Germany living on an American kasern (which was considered American territory) when our second daughter arrived, in an American military hospital. Nonetheless, three years later, upon our return states, we went into the big city to the immigration office to confirm her citizenship. When the nice lady asked our daughter to hold up her hand and give her name, she proudly replied “Mary Jane Smith d’America.” :-)
“We were in Germany living on an American kasern (which was considered American territory) when our second daughter arrived, in an American military hospital. Nonetheless, three years later, upon our return states, we went into the big city to the immigration office to confirm her citizenship. When the nice lady asked our daughter to hold up her hand and give her name, she proudly replied “Mary Jane Smith d’America.” :-)”
So what? The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Act authorized your daughter to acquire naturalized U.S. citizenship. In the absence of the naturalization act for the children of U.S. citizens your daughter would have been born without any U.S. citizenship whatsoever, just as the U.S. Supreme Court decided was the case for the children born abroad with two U.S. citizen parents in the period of 1802 to 1855 and afterwards in other instances. Likewise the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a child born abroad is incapable of being born as a natural born citizen of the United States: United State v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 18 S.Ct. 456, 42 L.Ed. “A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized....”