[Gondring]

Are you really that ignorant?

New born children travel under the mother’s passport; all that is required is a visit to the nearest US Consulate for a stamp, which in this case would have been less than 10 miles away.

Wow! You'd better tell the US Department of State, since they're "that ignorant," too! Look at the misinformation they have on their website:

• All minors regardless of age, including newborns and infants, must have their own passport when traveling internationally by air

Quick, give them your expert information and straighten them out! I don't know if that was the way things were in 1961, but you wrote in the present tense. And, I am assuming, you meant travel by air.

On the other hand, non-citizen nationals can also travel under U.S. passport, contrary to kenavi's claim at #74.

[editor-surveyor]

Wake up!

When a child is born overseas, they travel home on the mother’s passport.

[kenavi]

So your reading comprehension is that all children and infants can travel on a parent's U.S. passport even if they are not a citizen? No. A parent for example who becomes a naturalized citizen cannot get a U.S. passport for a child, unless the child is also naturalized.

These rules concerning who is and isn't a citizen have not changed in principle over the years, only that the requirements of the parent's age and U.S. residence have been eased since BHO was born.

"Non-citizen nationals" refers to people born in U.S. territories, as they are not sovereign nations and thus don't issue passports. Puerto Ricans for example are eligible for U.S. passports as are those from the U.S. Virgin Islands.

You can keep snarking away or pause a bit and think through the illogic of what you've maintained. You are truly a ninny if you think the phrase "must have their own passport" means that the U.S. grants passports to every newborn infant and child regardless of citizenship.

[kenavi]

“The Secretary of State of the United States of American hereby requests all whom it may concern to permit the citizen/national of the United States named herein to pass without delay or hindrance and in case of need to give all lawful aid and protection.”