[itsahoot]

If your parent is a U.S. citizen, then the child is automatically considered to be “natural born.”

Thank you for your expert opinion, you are dead wrong however. The mother did not meet the requirements, because Hawaii was a territory, not a state. Read the Law, wise up.

[Crystal Cove]

Hawaii was a state in 1961.

[Slapshot68]

“Thank you for your expert opinion, you are dead wrong however. The mother did not meet the requirements, because Hawaii was a territory, not a state. Read the Law, wise up.”

Here’s the law:

http://www.theodora.com/ina_96_title_3.html

“(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years:”

What’s the first sentence say, genius? He was born in Hawaii, a US possession, so he’s eligible.