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Originally Posted by Doctor Webley
Under the 14th Amendment of the Consitution, the child is an American citizen because the father is American.
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No.... the 14th amendment states that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen, not if they have a citizen parent.
To naturalize a non-citizen child of a citizen would fall under the The Child Citizenship Act of 2000, which states "that a child born outside the U.S. automatically becomes a U.S. citizen when all of the following conditions are fulfilled: (1) at least one parent of the child is a U.S. citizen, whether by birth or naturalization; (2) the child is under 18 years of age; and (3) the child is residing in the U.S. in the legal and physical custody of the citizen parent pursuant to a lawful admission for permanent residence."
INS would be my guess for naturalization.
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