[kdw]

crystalk says: >That is where BOTH parents are Americans overseas on a >temporary basis, not planning to domicile themselves >there. In this case, if I understand it, ONE parent is no >American at all, and the other might be said to have >emigrated with intent to reside abroad >permanently/indefinitely. No, that is not the way it works at all. In my case the child's mother was (and is)a Swede. I was living in Sweden with a permenate residents permit and had been for 8 years. We were not married at the time, but my name was on my child's Swedish birth certificate as the father. That was all that was required. IIRC at the time, there was a situation were a child born abroad of a US Citizen did not have a right to a US passport. That was if the parents were married and the father was the non-American. Think "fatherland"here. I think this has been changed now to be less discriminatory.

[crystalk]

On the narrow point, I am not sure at all that it HAS been changed, in fact my info is that it has not, in the facts given here.