The NBC argument is not nearly so important to me as the status of the father.
The serviceman abroad is a patriotic US citizen father. I’m ok with that. He’s serving his country. Even that would depend, though, on the military Japanese spouse...if she kept insisting on another tour in Japan. That child would be tied to Japan.
Cruz’s dad INTENTIONALLY did NOT pursue US citizenship, but went to Canada in 1969 at the height of Vietnam protests and immediately sought Canadian citizenship. Rafael Sr was NOT in my book a patriotic American father. He’s a Cubo-Canadian father who pissed on a chance to pursue US citizenship. I don’t care what the lawyers say about NBC. That RUBS me the wrong way.
The only reason I brought the other up was because of the NEW birth certificate - the certificate of live birth abroad from the consulate becoming the legal birth certificate. It is what the writer had to show whenever a birth certificate was needed (passport, social security, etc.) And the baby became a naturalized citizen, not a NBC.