The other day I read something very interesting about Americans born abroad to one citizen parent. This person was born of a US serviceman and his Japanese wife. The service person had the consular certificate of live birth for the baby and that became the baby's birth certificate, replacing the one issued by Japan. The parents also had to remarry at the consulate so that he could bring his wife to the US when his tour was over.
Wish I had bookmarked the page - it had photos of the paperwork.
The NBC argument is not nearly so important to me as the status of the father.
The serviceman abroad is a patriotic US citizen father. I’m ok with that. He’s serving his country. Even that would depend, though, on the military Japanese spouse...if she kept insisting on another tour in Japan. That child would be tied to Japan.
Cruz’s dad INTENTIONALLY did NOT pursue US citizenship, but went to Canada in 1969 at the height of Vietnam protests and immediately sought Canadian citizenship. Rafael Sr was NOT in my book a patriotic American father. He’s a Cubo-Canadian father who pissed on a chance to pursue US citizenship. I don’t care what the lawyers say about NBC. That RUBS me the wrong way.