Children of US Troops Born Overseas Will No Longer Get Automatic American Citizenship

It still begs a couple of questions though.

First of all, why is there such a thing as “non-citizen US service members”? I’m admittedly ignorant to most military policies, but in my uninformed opinion, serving in the US Military should automatically grant citizenship. The French have been doing it for almost 200 years.

Secondly, how do we benefit from placing any roadblocks whatsoever in front of our servicemen and women? If a soldier decides to adopt a child from a country he is serving in, I feel like it should be a done deal. If one of our marines makes the decision that this child should be part of his family and country, that’s good enough for me.

This comment is borderline, but I’ll just be honest with my feelings. As I see no other benefit to our country from this policy, there has to be some reason. I believe this is nothing more than testing the waters with the long term goal of modifying or abolishing the 14th amendment.

 

That article is misleading, on purpose I think. I think the way it is written is to make it seem that any GOV employee is a United States citizen.
You do not have to be a US citizen to work for the GOV. Be it military, consulate office, etc
So if you are not a USC and have a child abroad citizenship is not automatic to your child.
If you ARE a USC and have a child abroad then citizenship is transferred to your child. It’s called jus sanguinis. Means by blood.
However that USC parent has to have met certain residency requirements in the US.
For example, USC parent has kid in mex, kid is USC. Kid never resides in US, has kid in mex, that kid is not a USC because parent hasn’t met residency requirements.
Immigration law, is law. It’s complicated but cannot be changed arbitrarily, Congress has to change it.

 

Is it still legal to marry your brother so you can become a member of Congress?

Asking for a friend.

 

As far as military members getting automatic US citizenship, nope. They still need to naturalize. Definitely makes the process easier, but they still need to apply for citizenship.
Same thing for adoptions, have to apply for citizenship for foreign adopted children. Not automatic. Gotta go through the hoops.
Sort of like getting a drivers license, gotta go through the process.

 

This is the current LAW under INA:
Chapter 4 - Automatic Acquisition of Citizenship after Birth (INA 320)
[1]
A child born outside of the United States automatically becomes a U.S. citizen when all of the following conditions have been met on or after February 27, 2001: [2]

• The child has at least one parent, including an adoptive parent [3] who is a U.S. citizen by birth or through naturalization;
  
  
• The child is under 18 years of age;
  
  
• The child is a lawful permanent resident (LPR); [4] and
  
  
• The child is residing in the United States in the legal and physical custody of the U.S. citizen parent. [5]

This cannot be changed, as far as I know, without Congressional approval. The article, I agree, is intentionally misleading. Someone (orange idiot) is kicking the hornets nest again....wow, that's really surprising.

 

Only short term to assist in chain migration. Long term not advisable

 

This is absolutely Fake news. Read the proposal

 

How this thread is still on a non political website I do not know.

 

Me to...My mom was a nurse at the end of WW2 stationed in Honolulu...my dad was re-assigned there at the end of the war which he was in from beginning till the end in the Pacific...met my mom...got married.
Mom wanted me born in the states so she went to San Diego waiting for my dad who got orders for San Diego...I just barely got born on the states. (I would have preferred Hawaii even if it wasn't a state at that time)

My younger brother born 5 yrs later came close to getting born in Coco Solo,Panama so kids like him would be out of luck under this new rule...very bad rule...demoralizing if true...

imo