My son was born overseas in 1972, to two American citizens. His birth had to be registered CRBA to be recognized as a citizen.
I could not just waltz back into the US and my son declare himself a citizen because he felt like it.
He was made a citizen by virtue of paperwork, ie not natural born as I was or as my husband was.
It is not settled, it is not nonsense.
If Cruz has a CRBA, he’d have already produced it. It doesn’t make sense that he would have his records sealed. Both of these infer that he knows he isn’t eligible to be president.
So much for ‘’principled constitutional conservative’’. Only if it doesn’t conflict with his ambition.
You can not just waltz into JFK for a flight to London without a passport. You get you passport locally via filling out the proper papers. My son was born in Reading England county Berkshire. I took his English Birth Certificate and my passport and wife's passport down to the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square in London. A couple of weeks later I had his passport in the mail. I also obtained a British Passport for him which was quite legal via the same method. I submitted his British Birth Certificate with the mail in form from the local Post Office. A few weeks later he had his British Passport. Today he could not run for the Presidency of the United States as he is still a legal British Citizen. If he renounced his British Citizenship he could run for President tomorrow.
“My son was born overseas in 1972, to two American citizens.”
Your case is exactly like McCains. That is not an issue. However Cruz’s father was not an American citizen. May be an issue and might not be an issue. Plus he was born in Canada and had from what I heard Canadian citizenship. Again I don’t know if that matters or not.
The FS-240 was just a form like a birth certificate so your child could get a passport, the fact that you were a US Citizen when he was born is what made him a citizen. The full title is Department of State - Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the United States. It does not confer citizenship it merely reports it.