If this is the rule, get ready. Every child born from foreign women that were impregnated by American serviceman during conflicts overseas are officially citizens. And they aren’t anchor babies as they were not born on US soil. And the hundreds, if not thousands, of children born anywhere in the world to an American citizen mother or father since the passage of the 14th amendment in 1868 can now come home with a brand new passport marked citizen.
But if sperm or egg is considered the qualifying of a person’s citizenship, how can anyone with a DNA tract that matches an American citizen anywhere in the chain, not be an American citizen? That means everyone in the world is related to everyone in the US. So everyone is a citizen. After all, we all came from somewhere back in time. Slippery slope isn’t it?
rwood
Not always.
A Mother (estonian living in Germany) meets and lives with US Serviceman while he was based in Germany post WW2 and has a baby by him. He gets sent home, says sayonara to the baby mama, and the Mother gives the child to an orphanage. The child is then adopted by an American couple. The child had to wait 5 years and go thru the naturalization process for citizenship. Nothing automatic there.