[DiogenesLamp]

It depends on the definition of “resident” under the law. The courts have used having a permanent address as the usual definition but resident gets defined on a case by case basis. it is usually contrasted with “tourist.” Barack Obama had a permanent address in Honolulu, Hawaii and then in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I think you are just dancing around the point. I don't think the Wong Kim Ark court would have regarded him as a resident. Certainly Chief Justice John Marshall wouldn't have agreed that he was a resident.

[Nero Germanicus]

Wong Kim Ark’s parents returned to China and never again returned to the United States.