“the status if naturalized, native, or natural-born citizen, as determined by her status prior to loss”
I suspect the reference to n-b may be a to indicate those born overseas to citizen parents.
In one of the FOIA requests for the immigration file of Lolo Soetoro there is a form that S. Ann Dunham had to fill out. It has an interesting statement on citizenship.
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5. If you are a citizen of the United States, give the following:
Was your citizenship acquired through birth in the United States, through naturalization, through parentage, or through marriage?
If acquired through naturalization give number of naturalization certificate and date and place of naturalization:
If acquired through parentage or marriage, have you obtained a certificate of citizenship in your own name based on such acquisition?
Maybe the government believes that a native born citizen is also natural born but a child born overseas to citizen parents is natural born but not native born.
think “John McCain and the Panama Canal zone.”
also US citizens (naturalized) who have served part of their 10 year “citizenship to offspring” requirment while in the military.
(eg. seven years in the USA as a naturalized citizen plus three years in the military means your children born after than are automatically US Citizens. If born in the USA and as a baby [remember achor babies abolished in 1996] leave country with deported parents and have children of “its” own before returning to the usa then those children do not obtain citizenship automatically)
BTW all immigration forms since the 60’s had and have some variation of that form language.
Has anyone considered he could just simply be adopted?