The Hague Convention on International Adoptions, to which the US is a signatory DOES allow the citizenship laws of the adopting nation to be honored so as to facilitate adoption in the host country. Pakistan does not allow for dual citizenship and undoubtedly required Lolo Soetero to renounce Barry’s US citizenship so that he could adopt him. True Barry’s US citizenship cannot be PERMENENTLY renounced by such actions. However, Barry would have to appear before an appropriate State Dept. official and swear an oath of loyalty to the US so as to repatriate himself upon achieving the age of 18. He would then be a NATURALIZED citizen, and would forever lose any NBC status that he might have had. (Iam sure he was NEVER an NBC) There is no evidence that he did so.
The purpose of Article II, Sec. I Clause 5 of the USC was to protect the office of the POTUS from undue foreign influence, PARTICULARLY from a father owing allegiance to a foreign sovereignty NOT to ensure an alien entity like Barack Obama would have the right to assume the presidency one day. The measure was EXCLUSIONARY (only applicable to the presidency and NO other provision of citizenship) and not to be interpeted as all inclusionary so as to protect the office of POTUS.
My apologies for the triple post. I kept getting a “website cannot be foud” message after each post.
Actually he would have lost his natural born Citizen status when he lost his Citizen status on the outbound leg. Its hard to BE a natural born Citizen when you are not even a plain ‘Citizen’. So at that point he would not have been natural born Citizen and that status is forever gone.
A formal naturalization is a bad problem. nbC and naturalized C are mutually exclusive. If you are one you can not be the other.
Birth-smirth certificate, foreign father or not - a naturalized citizen is not eligible - period. If Obama was formally naturalized then the events of 1961 are mute as far as the Constitution is concerned.