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To: Sybeck1
He became a indonesian citizen as a boy and never got it back imo

Please don't start another round of false information. The State Department is very clear that a child does not lose US citizenship through actions of parents. A minor can't renounce US citizenship without convincing a consular officer that he fully understands all consequences of that action - not likely from someone under 12 years old.

18 posted on 08/07/2012 7:37:07 PM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: sometime lurker
Please don't start another round of false information. The State Department is very clear that a child does not lose US citizenship through actions of parents. A minor can't renounce US citizenship without convincing a consular officer that he fully understands all consequences of that action - not likely from someone under 12 years old.

Are you saying that Obama applied for college as a foreign exchange student before the age of 12?

21 posted on 08/07/2012 7:41:47 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: sometime lurker

maybe...except Indonesia is very clear that it does not permit dual-citizenship. So, in their eyes, he had to be an Indonesian citizen.


26 posted on 08/07/2012 7:50:09 PM PDT by CaptainKip
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To: sometime lurker

The Hague Convention on International Adoptions, to which the US is a signatory DOES allow the citizenship laws of the adopting nation to be honored so as to facilitate adoption in the host country. Pakistan does not allow for dual citizenship and undoubtedly required Lolo Soetero to renounce Barry’s US citizenship so that he could adopt him. True Barry’s US citizenship cannot be PERMENENTLY renounced by such actions. However, Barry would have to appear before an appropriate State Dept. official and swear an oath of loyalty to the US so as to repatriate himself upon achieving the age of 18. He would then be a NATURALIZED citizen, and would forever lose any NBC status that he might have had. (Iam sure he was NEVER an NBC) There is no evidence that he did so.

The purpose of Article II, Sec. I Clause 5 of the USC was to protect the office of the POTUS from undue foreign influence, PARTICULARLY from a father owing allegiance to a foreign sovereignty NOT to ensure an alien entity like Barack Obama would have the right to assume the presidency one day. The measure was EXCLUSIONARY (only applicable to the presidency and NO other provision of citizenship) and not to be interpeted as all inclusionary so as to protect the office of POTUS.


61 posted on 08/08/2012 1:08:47 AM PDT by DMZFrank
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