Child Born

[sonyah 0]

Hi all:

This is a question regarding a child who is born in U.S but the mother and the father are concern what her nationality is???? So the story is that the mother of the child is a Canadian citizen who lives and studies in U.S (she pays for her studies and all her paperwork is complete). The father is U.S permanent resident. The couple are not married they are just girlfriend and boyfriend. What is the child’s Nationality?

[UK_Fan 192]

Im about 110% sure that a child is an american citizen. Anyone born in the states, no matter who their parents are, is automatically a US citizen.

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

Nationality and citizenship are not always the same.

The child is definitely a US citizen, It may also be a Canadian citizen and a citizen of the dad's country of citizrnship, depending on those countries' rules.

[ceadsearc 516]

The child is a US citizen. If the mother is just here as a student the child is more than likely also a Canadian citizen. Without knowing the father's nationality it's impossible to say if the child shares citizenship with the father as well.

[NickD 202]

If the child has a birth certificate, born in the USA, well not exactly, a city, county, town, etc. that is in the USA, is an US citizen by birth regardless of the marriage status or heritage of the parents, whether here legally or not. Doesn't even have to conceived in the USA, just born here.

Almost completely contrary to natural born US citizens conceiving here, but having a kid born in a foreign country. Yes still a US citizen but with extra paper work involved. Really don't know if a kid like that has to live with a US passport born in a foreign country. Wonder who makes these laws.

Kids born here from visitors or not natural born or naturalized US highly depends on the laws of their home country, that get complicated to keep track of all 201 of them.

[ConcordUser 18]

I believe once the child is born in US acquires the US Citizenship. At the age of 18 they can decide if they want to obtain citizenship of parents country depending upon the laws of that country. My questions would be how do you include the child in the passport? Get a US passport ( I guess that is not possible at least till they reach certain age ) or include in parents passport. If parents are citizens of 2 different countries does the child has to be listed in both parents passports so their respective countries grant benefits.

[aaron2020 11,651]

How many threads are you going to start to ask the same question? Multiple posters gave you the correct answer; a child born in the US is a US citizen. You asked for authority on the matter, and I gave you the information from the USCIS website and the US Federal Code. What more do you want?

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/360323-canadian-student-in-usa/page__p__5261478#entry5261478

Edited March 31, 2012 by aaron2020

[sonyah 0]

If the child has a birth certificate, born in the USA, well not exactly, a city, county, town, etc. that is in the USA, is an US citizen by birth regardless of the marriage status or heritage of the parents, whether here legally or not. Doesn't even have to conceived in the USA, just born here.

Almost completely contrary to natural born US citizens conceiving here, but having a kid born in a foreign country. Yes still a US citizen but with extra paper work involved. Really don't know if a kid like that has to live with a US passport born in a foreign country. Wonder who makes these laws.

Kids born here from visitors or not natural born or naturalized US highly depends on the laws of their home country, that get complicated to keep track of all 201 of them.

Thanks All!

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Aaron,

you should have pointed them to the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

That said, I have a serious problem grasping that jus soli is such a complicated subject to understand for . . . um . . . some people. They should have said it in more simple words, like: "you born in America, you born American."