Why wasn’t he granted US citizenship if his father was deployed? I thought children born to active duty US citizens in military bases overseas automatically were granted US citizenship.
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His father was a naturalized citizen who had not been naturalized long enough for automatic citizenship. Basically, a loophole in the law. And very, very, fucked up.
jun 26, 2025, 11:44 pm • 12 0 • view
But if your parents naturalize while you're under 18, don't you automatically gain citizenship?
jun 27, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Sometimes, not always (you need LPR status, which most not-already-citizen children of naturalizing parents will have). Basically the law here is an enormous patchwork of special cases that cover *almost* everyone, but there are a few holes.
jun 27, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow, I never knew that loophole existed.
jun 27, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah. Only happens if they naturalize then promptly leave, at which point normally you'd expect the child to have a connection to the country they were born in so it largely wouldn't matter, but when it's a military base...
jun 27, 2025, 12:09 am • 3 0 • view
It'd complicated. I had a German birth certificate and em assy birth certificate. My father had to physically go thru naturalization process on my behalf, this was not an automatic process.
jun 26, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
So if his parents dropped the ball, then he ends up stateless? Jeez, that's really fucked up
jun 27, 2025, 2:49 am • 1 0 • view
I'd heard the process was made easier later on. I mean it's ridiculous that I'm a naturalized citizen when we were overseas because my father was serving in the army. The guy in the article, seems like he had a very disorganized childhood. The fact he's been deported is obscene.
jun 27, 2025, 9:59 am • 2 0 • view