Both of my sons were born in the Army Hospital at Camp Zama, and their births were registered at the U S Consulate in Yokohama. No questions here. My daughter was born in a British hospital. Her birth was duly recorded at the U S Consulate in Liverpool. She was a dual-citizen until age 21 when she became a full U S citizen since both parents were both natural-born U S citizens.
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Just wondering: When your children were very young, did they need their own individual passports, or were their names simply added to your or your wife's passports in those days?
1. Do any of your children have their own individual passports today? If they do, did they have to provide legal documents to get their passports?
2. When you and your wife obtained your passports, what legal documents did you have to provide?
3. I ask the questions above for the following reason:
4. Back in 2008 before the presidential election, I read a message on an Israeli website that offered this theory as to why Obama may have been able to obtain a U.S. passport when he was an adult without presenting a birth certificate:
5. The poster said that back in the 1960s and 1970s, he thought that if a child was already listed on one of his parent's passports, the child could obtain his own passport later by simply pointing to his name on his parent's passport, that is, Obama, according to the poster, might have been able to obtain a U.S. passport without providing a copy of his long form birth certificate.
6. If you could help me with my questions above, I would appreciate it.