• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    What I learned in school was natural born means born in the USA.

    It wasn’t until Cheney that I learned that it also meant parents of citizens or born on a US Base.

    Just goes to show that school systems are janky when it comes to history.

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      4 months ago

      A US base is US territory. Same as an embassy or consulate. If you’re born there, it’s the same as being born in Kansas.

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      4 months ago

      I think that being born to US citizens, on or off a US base, is usually sufficient to be a US citizen, but it depends on residency. It gets a little tricky at the margins, and it’s the sort of thing that you’d need to take up with the US State Dept.

      I know that for people that have dual-citizen parents, but have never lived in the US, it can get challenging.