It is not necessary to go through a procedure to be naturalized. All of the born children of a Naturalized Alien are also naturalized, (derivative naturalization is what they call it.) but none of them have to go through any sort of procedure.
It is a fallacy to think a procedure is necessary to be naturalized. The only thing required is that congress should say by law that you are naturalized.
They've used this power many times since the "naturalization act of 1790" which is basically the ancestor of all the laws to which we are referring.
I know that. I was just making a joke. Churchill must be an NBC, because he is a citizen, and he didn't go through a naturalization procedure. You and I have seen that argument advanced many times - only two kinds of citizens, and if one didn't go through a naturalization procedure, one has to be the "born" kind.
> It is not necessary to go through a procedure to be naturalized.
That’s right. A procedure is not required any more than a declaration of intent, swearing an oath, or any other condition precedent or subsequent is required.
Those who insist that a procedure is required might want to consider that the procedure required by Pub. L. 82-414 § 301(b) was for the person “to come to the United States prior to attaining the age of twenty-three and to remain there for five years”.
Cruz thinks himself clever, he avoids the word “procedure” and instead uses “proceeding”.
The presence or absence of any procedure, proceeding, oaths, or any other requirement of statute is not the factor which determines naturalization, it is the reliance on statute which indicates naturalization.