American citizenship cannot be revoked from a child under the age of 18, no matter what the parents do. Even if the child is adopted and gains foreign citizenship, they don’t lose their US citizenship.
As for passport records, what is that? I don’t have any passport records, except for my passport, which is brand new, because I just had it renewed. What exactly do you mean by passport records?
The US is a signatory to , and has ratified the Hague convention of 1930. That agreement would seem to negate your argument, the relevant portions are reprinted below. A parent or legal guardian CAN make citizenship decisions for minors under their care as do US adoptive parents. In any event Hissein could have restablished his citizenship upon becoming an adult by going to an appropriate State Dept. official and swearing an oath of allegiance to the US. Alas this makes him a naturalized citizen, at which time he has forever forfeited his natural born status. Consider Article 16.
CONVENTION ON CERTAIN QUESTIONS RELATING TO
THE CONFLICT OF NATIONALITY LAWS
THE HAGUE - 12 APRIL 1930
CHAPTER IV
NATIONALITY OF CHILDREN
Article 12
Rules of law which confer nationality by reason of birth on the territory of a State
shall not apply automatically to children born to persons enjoying diplomatic
immunities in the country where the birth occurs.
The law of each State shall permit children of consuls de carrière, or of officials of
foreign States charged with official missions by their Governments, to become
divested, by repudiation or otherwise, of the nationality of the State in which they
were born, in any case in which on birth they acquired dual nationality, provided that
they retain the nationality of their parents.
Article 13
Naturalisation of the parents shall confer on such of their children as, according to its
law, are minors the nationality of the State by which the naturalisation is granted. In
such case the law of that State may specify the conditions governing the acquisition of
its nationality by the minor children as a result of the naturalisation of the parents. In
cases where minor children do not acquire the nationality of their parents as the result
of the naturalisation of the latter, they shall retain their existing nationality.
Article 14
A child whose parents are both unknown shall have the nationality of the country of
birth. If the child’s parentage is established, its nationality shall be determined by the
rules applicable in cases where the parentage is known.
A foundling is, until the contrary is proved, presumed to have been born on the
territory of the State in which it was found.
Article 15
Where the nationality of a State is not acquired automatically by reason of birth on its
territory, a child born on the territory of that State of parents having no nationality, or
of unknown nationality, may obtain the nationality of the said State. The law of that
State shall determine the conditions governing the acquisition of its nationality in such
cases.
Article 16
If the law of the State, whose nationality an illegitimate child possesses, recognises
that such nationality may be lost as a consequence of a change in the civil status of the
child (legitimation, recognition), such loss shall be conditional on the acquisition by
the child of the nationality of another State under the law of such State relating to the
effect upon nationality of changes in civil status.
CHAPTER V
ADOPTION
Article 17
If the law of a State recognises that its nationality may be lost as the result of
adoption, this loss shall be conditional upon the acquisition by the person adopted of
the nationality of the person by whom he is adopted, under the law of the State of
which the latter is a national relating to the effect of adoption upon nationality.
I meant Article 17.
I mean records kept by the State Department of the issuance or use of a passport.