Posted on Sep 1, 2019
The Trump administration's new citizenship policy will only affect 25 military children a year,...
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“Under the policy, which goes into effect Oct. 29, 2019, children born abroad to U.S. citizens who meet the following conditions "are not considered to be residing in the U.S. for acquisition of citizenship" and must file an application for citizenship:
-Children of parents who have never lived in the United States or established residency
-Children of couples including a U.S. citizen and a non-citizen
-Children of non-citizens serving in the armed forces
-Non-citizen children adopted by U.S. citizens”
So bullets 3&4 makes sense and was already existing guidelines but bullets 1&2...um...wow..those are definitely new. Trying to imagine how many people are born an American citizen but have never set foot on US soil or territory. Can’t be too many. And to Americans, military and civilian, that marry a foreign national and has kids, you’ll have to file extra paperwork to ensure your kids are considered American. Um wow.
-Children of parents who have never lived in the United States or established residency
-Children of couples including a U.S. citizen and a non-citizen
-Children of non-citizens serving in the armed forces
-Non-citizen children adopted by U.S. citizens”
So bullets 3&4 makes sense and was already existing guidelines but bullets 1&2...um...wow..those are definitely new. Trying to imagine how many people are born an American citizen but have never set foot on US soil or territory. Can’t be too many. And to Americans, military and civilian, that marry a foreign national and has kids, you’ll have to file extra paperwork to ensure your kids are considered American. Um wow.
The Trump administration's new citizenship policy will only affect 25 military children a year,...
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I know a number of those who fit cat 1. Third generation of a family who are holding dual passports.
There's nothing that says you can't apply but it is no longer automatic
There's nothing that says you can't apply but it is no longer automatic
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MAJ James Woods
Being born in Germany in 75 I could have requested to keep my dual citizenship but chose to let the option expired. I can’t imagine my parents never traveling back to the US once during my childhood to see family. My rational is based on the average military brat family. Perhaps civilians that move overseas and have kids choose never to return to the US and establish/maintain US residency. In that case I think those Americans should give up their citizenship along with their kids. How American can your kids be if they never lived in their parent’s homeland? It’s the same argument for children brought to the US as infants by non citizen parents who are deported decades later to a country that is foreign to them. Dual citizenship for a child should expire when they become an adult and then they need to request to maintain that dual citizenship with proof of residency. Now that is a policy I can support if it’s not already policy in the US.
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