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Umm, yeah. By definition, there is either “permanent” or “temporary.” They left, so it was temporary. Do you know of another term that is anywhere between permanent and temporary?

[[Do you know of another term that is anywhere between permanent and temporary]]

Permaporary?

an 80 year stay in Canada is a temporary visit according to your understanding. She was living there, working there, married to a Canadian there, and raising her Canadian family there. That is not a temporary stay. and Ted was still undeniably born into Canadian allegiance.

Allegiance is nothing more than the tie or duty of obedience of a subject to the sovereign under whose protection he is, and allegiance by birth is that which arises from being born within the dominions and under the protection of a particular sovereign. Two things usually concur to create citizenship: first, birth locally within the dominions of the sovereign, and secondly, birth within the protection and obedience, or, in other words, within the allegiance of the sovereign.... Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children even of aliens born in a country while the parents are resident there under the protection of the government and owing a temporary allegiance thereto are subjects by birth.

Supreme Court Justice Story, majority opinion, Inglis v. Sailors Snug Harbor, 3 Pet. 99, 155,164. (1830)