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09-02-2003, 09:02 AM
DNA matching.
"Oliver" <lucy808@eudoramail.com> wrote in message
news:dedc0573.0309020629.41d053ae@posting.google.c om... It seems that in order to pass US citizenship at birth to her foreign-born child, a US citizen mother married to an alien must have had residences in the USA totaling 5 years, and that time spent overseas as US military (or USG civilian) or dependent of a military or USG civilian person counts. If the mother is unmarried, then she must have spent one unbroken year in the USA without leaving, even for the briefest moment. And if she happens to have spent that year in one of those enclaves along the Candian border where you must pass through Canada to go shopping in the USA, then she is SOL. I am wondering what proof can possibly be offered of that year spent in the USA. If her life has been spent in Canada, then there will be no stamps in her US or Canadian passport to show border crossings. If elsewhere, there may be arrival stamps showing travel to the USA, but not necessarily stamps showing arrival in any foreign country. There is a legal presumption that the baby is NOT qualified for US citizenship. Yet I am informed that occasionally offspring of Amcit parents who arrive in the US with foreign passports on passport waiver are turned away. So the presumption is turned on its head, and the child is neither given a US passport nor admitted to the US with a foreign one. The situation is even more bizarre where the putative father is also an Amcit, but paternity has not been established, and the child needs to travel to the USA for to establish paternity. Does anybody have any experience with this?
"Oliver" <lucy808@eudoramail.com> wrote in message
news:dedc0573.0309020629.41d053ae@posting.google.c om... It seems that in order to pass US citizenship at birth to her foreign-born child, a US citizen mother married to an alien must have had residences in the USA totaling 5 years, and that time spent overseas as US military (or USG civilian) or dependent of a military or USG civilian person counts. If the mother is unmarried, then she must have spent one unbroken year in the USA without leaving, even for the briefest moment. And if she happens to have spent that year in one of those enclaves along the Candian border where you must pass through Canada to go shopping in the USA, then she is SOL. I am wondering what proof can possibly be offered of that year spent in the USA. If her life has been spent in Canada, then there will be no stamps in her US or Canadian passport to show border crossings. If elsewhere, there may be arrival stamps showing travel to the USA, but not necessarily stamps showing arrival in any foreign country. There is a legal presumption that the baby is NOT qualified for US citizenship. Yet I am informed that occasionally offspring of Amcit parents who arrive in the US with foreign passports on passport waiver are turned away. So the presumption is turned on its head, and the child is neither given a US passport nor admitted to the US with a foreign one. The situation is even more bizarre where the putative father is also an Amcit, but paternity has not been established, and the child needs to travel to the USA for to establish paternity. Does anybody have any experience with this?
