[edge919]

Yes, adopted children become automatic citizens, but they don’t acquire that ciizenship at the moment of BIRTH. That’s what I’m saying.

It doesn't exactly matter. Do you have a point??

[VADoc1980]

I do. Even if he was adopted by his Indonesian stepfather, I don’t think that would negate his U.S. citizenship. He wasn’t of an age to renounce it and I think that if he was a citizen at birth, then he maintained it by returning to the United States as a minor.