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**enentique** · 12-05-2008, 05:20 AM

Actually I don't think that parents can irrevocably renounce American citizenship for their children. I'm fairly certain that a child born to US citizens outside the US, or a child born outside the US to parents of mixed nationality, one being American, the other not, may choose his nationality at 21 years of age. For that matter, I'm not even sure if it's possible to "naturalize" a child. AFAIK in the US the process only applies to adults. A foreign child adopted by an American automatically becomes naturalized upon entering the country and completing the adoption process. I believe that children born to alien parents who naturalize before the children reach majority also become citizens or have the right to choose at age 21.

Did Obama's mother renounce her citizenship?

12-05-2008, 05:20 AM	#27
enentique Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 440 Senior Member	Actually I don't think that parents can irrevocably renounce American citizenship for their children. I'm fairly certain that a child born to US citizens outside the US, or a child born outside the US to parents of mixed nationality, one being American, the other not, may choose his nationality at 21 years of age. For that matter, I'm not even sure if it's possible to "naturalize" a child. AFAIK in the US the process only applies to adults. A foreign child adopted by an American automatically becomes naturalized upon entering the country and completing the adoption process. I believe that children born to alien parents who naturalize before the children reach majority also become citizens or have the right to choose at age 21. Did Obama's mother renounce her citizenship?
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