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To: little jeremiah

Bio says Tutuila, American Samoa. I guess it would depend on her parents citizenship.


897 posted on 10/18/2019 4:19:06 PM PDT by Chuckster (Probably not...)
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To: Chuckster

Parents are American; her father had a Samoan mother and American father. Let me look it up. A couple of relevant paragraphs; more at link. I don’t know about “natural born” status. Since both her parents were US citizens, she was born a US citizen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Samoa

As of April 2019 the population of American Samoa is approximately 55,689 people.[1][5][6] Most of them are “nationals but not citizens of the United States at birth”; as well as birthright citizenship not applying on the islands, American Samoans cannot vote in the American Presidential elections.[7][6][5] Most American Samoans are bilingual and can speak English and Samoan fluently. Samoan is the same language spoken in neighboring independent Samoa.

Nationality
According to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the people born in American Samoa – including those born on Swains Island – are “nationals but not citizens of the United States at birth”. If a child is born on any of these islands to any U.S. citizen, then that child is considered a national and a citizen of the United States at birth.In an amicus curiae brief filed in federal court, Samoan Congressman Faleomavaega supported the legal interpretation that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not extend birthright citizenship to United States nationals born in unincorporated territories.[60][61] All U.S. nationals have statutory rights to reside in the United States (i.e., the 50 states and Puerto Rico), and may apply for citizenship by naturalization after three months of residency by passing a test in English and civics, and by taking an oath of allegiance to the United States.[62] However, the INA makes clear that any “national but not a citizen of the United States” who at any time has been convicted of any aggravated felony, whether the aggravated felony was committed inside or outside the United States, is “debarred from becoming a citizen of the United States”


901 posted on 10/18/2019 4:27:36 PM PDT by little jeremiah (new tagline in the pipeline)
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