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To: Beckwith
As I understand the US Code, if a person is adopted, as a child, by a foreigner in a foreign country, that person can affirm their US citizenship upon reaching 18 years of age.

You misunderstand it. If you're born a US citizen, you remain one until and unless you voluntarily renounce citizenship as an adult. Adoption does not change that.

195 posted on 07/21/2009 6:13:46 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError

“You misunderstand it. If you’re born a US citizen, you remain one until and unless you voluntarily renounce citizenship as an adult. Adoption does not change that.”

Do you have a source/link, or just an opinion?


218 posted on 07/21/2009 7:40:36 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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