“It has long been a recognized principle in this country that if a child born here is taken during minority to the country of his parents’ origin, where his parents resume their former allegiance, he does not thereby lose his citizenship in the United States provided that on attaining majority he elects to retain that citizenship and to return to the United States to assume its duties.”
PERKINS, Secretary of Labor, et al. v. ELG. ELG v. PERKINS, Secretary of Labor, et al.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/307/325
In 1971,72, Barry Soetoro returned to Hawaii as an unaccompanied minor. He was place in U.S. Federal Protective custody and assigned a legal custodian.
From his Connecticut SSN, we know Obama’s legal custodian from the age of 10 to 18 was headquartered in Connecticut. Obama’s grandmother was appointed his guardian.
It was Obama’s legal custodian (Connecticut based) that flew BHO Sr. from Kenya, Africa to Hawaii to file a complaint about the Soetoro adoption and regain his parental rights. But, BHO Sr. was an absentee father. So, the legal custodian retained custody of Obama.
After the Soetoro adoption was annulled, BHO’s Sr. name was placed on the Barack Hussein Obama II COLB and the Soetoro COLB was sealed and archived in Hawaii DoH.
As with Elg, Obama had the option to reassert his right as an American citizen before he reached the age of 18 1/2 years but he chose not to. He was riding the Foreign Student Scholarship gravy train and didn’t want to give it up.
Eventually, Obama naturalized as a U.S. Citizen. He could have retained his Natural born citizenship status by processing the correct paperwork with the American consulate before he was 18 1/2 years old, but he made a decision not to.
When was Barry living with Soebarkahs and what was his legal citizenship and custody status when he was doing so?