[fanfan]

If Obama's adoptive step father secured for him Indonesian citizenship as part of the adoption process and Obama traveled under Indonesian documents to the United States his US citizenship would automatically have been revoked if he didn't reaffirm it at eighteen.

I have a question. Would the US government notify some one of that requirement just before the person turned 18, or would he have had to remember on his own?

Maybe it's not so much what is ON the birth certificate, but where that information could lead.

[Yaelle]

I didn’t know until now that an adopted person would have a new birth certificate at adoption. It makes sense, but I’d never thought about it before. Was Barack adopted by the Indonesian father? Does the new adoptive father then get his name on the birth certificate as if he had been there the year and date the child is born (conceived)?