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To: El Gato
By US law, a parent cannot forefite the citizenship of a child. Nor can the child renounce it themselves, until they reach a more mature age, generally 18, but in some cases younger if they can convince a US consol that they are not being influenced or pressured by anyone to renounce their US citizenhip. And the bar for that is very high.

I would just point out that this a fairly recent interpretation of citizenship laws. In the laws in effect at the time Obama would have been adopted by Lolo Soetoro, there was nothing in the law that specifically prevented a minor from renouncing his own citizenship. It's also not clear what effect an outgoing adoption can have on a child's citizenship. One state department Web site acknowledged that the United States couldn't protect the citizenship rights of children adopted into non-Hague Resolution countries, such as Indonesia. What I think might be more overriding however is if Obama chose to exercise any of his Indonesian citizenship rights as an adult. It's pretty hard to claim NBC-status under such a scenario.

250 posted on 04/09/2010 11:01:00 PM PDT by edge919
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To: edge919
What I think might be more overriding however is if Obama chose to exercise any of his Indonesian citizenship rights as an adult. It's pretty hard to claim NBC-status under such a scenario.

Yes that is different. Unfortunately even that might not be enough, had he been an NBC to begin with. The courts, and the laws, have made it increasingly difficult for citizenship to be removed involuntarily, and what counts as a "volutary renunciation" has also been narrowed.

271 posted on 04/10/2010 12:08:28 AM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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