[Nero Germanicus]

Bellei lost his citizenship due to a State Department interpretation of the Immigration and Naturalization Act that was upheld by the Supreme Court and later rendered moot by subsequent legislation.
That subsequent legislation was passed before Senator Cruz was born.

---

“Any person who is a national and citizen of the United States at birth under paragraph (7) of subsection (a) of this section, shall lose his nationality and citizenship unless he shall come to the United States prior to attaining the age of twenty-three years and shall immediately following any such coming be continuously physically present in the United States for at least five years. . ..”

Bellei visited the United States under his American passport in 1948, 1952, 1955, and 1962. His last trip was made in 1965 on his Italian passport.”

Senator Cruz, on the other hand, has been permanently domiciled in the USA.

[edge919]

You seem to be purposely blurring the point. These two cases still hinge on statutory law and not on natural law as the Supreme Court used to exclusively define natural-born citizen. It doesn’t matter that Cruz had permanent domicil; he was not a natural citizen at birth.

[DiogenesLamp]

"Bellei lost his citizenship..." and the rest of what you say about it is irrelevant.

How do I lose my citizenship?