That means that O and his mom could have left for Indonesia with one passport, hers, because he was under the age of 8. They were there for +/- 5 years. If she got a passport for the trip, then she had approx. three years before it expired. Barry was “either 5 or 6” (family history @ theObamaFile.com) when they left. Either way he was likely at least 8 when the renewal came up and would have had to get his own passport.
If by any chance mom got her passport earlier than just before leaving, it is possible that the renewal came up when Barry was under the age of 8 and could still be on mom’s passport so you would never find a separate U.S. one for him from that time period.
If Indonesia required the taking of their citizenship and the rejection of U.S. citizenship, would they have been likely to leave Indonesia on that country’s passport or one from the U.S. Or could they have had both... left using the former and arrived in the U.S. using the latter?
Does any of this matter?
You wrote,
Does any of this matter?
Yes. Naturalization as a citizen of Indonesia arguably asserts another dual or multiple foreign citizenship and foreign allegiance which the Founding Fathers explicitly chose to exclude from eligibiity as Commander-in-Chief of the American Army and Office of the President when they wrote the natural born citizen phrase into the Constitution to do so.
There may or may not also be a circumstance in which his citizenship was renounced as a condition for naturalizing as a citizen of Indonesia. The tampering of the U.S. State Department passport files, however, may have broken the chain of evidence and scrubbed incriminating evidence in the event he ever acquired Indonesian citizenship and/or renounced U.S. citizenship. Regardless of the truth in any event, the tampering with the passport files by a political supporter of Obama may deny an opportunnity to discover that truth.
I don’t know if the age 8 is set in stone or a guideline, its based on my experience.