NBC Issues Major Correction On Story About Citizenship For Military Children Abroad

“Initial reports on the new policy from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services focused almost entirely on one line from the guidance, namely that the Department of Homeland Security “no longer considers children of U.S. government employees and U.S. armed forces members residing outside the United States as ‘residing in the United States’ for purposes of acquiring citizenship.”

Now why would you even have that verbiage even in the policy? And I will further say US citizens adopting a foreign born infant or child had always had to submit additional documents to make that child a US citizen. It wasn’t automatic. The same goes for children born before the non citizen is naturalized. None of this is new; just sounds like their reinforcing it possible due to some recent cases that needed clarification. But that quotes verbiage should never had been in the USCIS document AT ALL.