if U R an american & give birth in another country is the child a citizen of USA or the other country-?

Question

Just an example -Brad pitts baby - is she an american citizen,an african citizen or is it dual citizenship-this has me stumped -any help out there?

Answer 1

The child will be American once the parents register the birth with the embassy. They will also be citizens of the country of birth if that country has naturalization by birth in country.

Answer 2

The child is a citizen of the country it is registered in. Waiting for eighteen as previously stated would not work as it would be stateless until then and not allowed to leave any country it was in!

In theory it could be registered both in the country of birth and the US but I understood the States does not agree with dual nationality and will withdraw an American passport from people holding the passport of another country!

Answer 3

Your child would be an American citizen but you must register the birth as soon as possible to prevent any confusion. If at the age of 18 your child decides to elect citizenship with the country in which the child was born, he/she can make that choice.

Answer 4

Chlld is definitely an American because born to American parents, wherever he is born. As for the citizenship of the country where he was born, it all depends on that country. Many countries do not believe in citizenship by birth but only citizenship if your parents, either one or both, are citizens of that country. Brad Pitt's baby was offered Namibian citizenship but that is not automatic. I can assure you that being born on Saudi Arabia to a non-Saudi father (never mind if the mother is) will not get you a Saudi citizenship. Now, assuming you were born to American parents in a foreign country that granted you citizenship by birth, as is the case with the Pitt-Jolie baby, America requires you to choose one of the two citizenships when you're 18. As of now, that baby is only American, no one heard that her parents accepted the Namibian offer. Only if you are a naturalized American citizen (one who came here originally withh another citizenship then became American) are you allowed by the US to keep your original citizenship along with your American citizenhip. Your kids born here cannot have both past 18, even though your original country may grant them citizenship because their parents are ciizens of that country, never mind that the kids were born in America. Some countries value parentage not birth. America grants citizenship on both grounds but again requires a child born elsewhere to American parents to choose one citizenship at 18. One other exception allowed Americans to have dual citizenship, other than having been originally from elsewhere and now a naturalized American citizen, is in obtaining Israeli citizenship. America "recognizes" that all Jews, even if they were born here and their parents were born here, can obtain an Israeli citizenship, while keeping their American one. It is very unfair to us Palestinian Americans, but meant to afford Jews the ability to increase the nominal proportion of Jews to Arabs in Israel, whether the Jews live there or not.

Answer 5

Yes, that child will have dual citizenship. This actually happened to one of my aunts. Her grandfather was an American citizen and he moved back to Hong Kong and he eventually died there. My aunt didn't know about this. When she applied for a student visa to attend a university in the US, she went to the US embassy in Hong Kong to apply. The staff at the embassy did some search on her family and they found that her grandfather was a US citizen. So, instead of giving her a student visa, they gave her a passport.

Answer 6

Depends on the country.
Your child is always a US citizen if you are but I would take the birth certificate to the US Embassy and register it.
The other country may grant dual citizenship depending on whether you or your spouse is also a citizen of that country.

Answer 7

No, even if that's racist to declare that Otunnu ever stated Obama become born in Kenya or attempt to spin his words to "teach" Obama become born in Kenya. The itemizing for the audio says: "Olara Otunnu (Harvard regulation, 1978) concerning the commentary of Kenyan historian Ali Mazrui on the oddity that a member of Kenya's Luo tribe (Barack Obama, a Kenyan citizen and Luo tribe member from start) would grow to be president of the united states earlier a Luo tribe member turns into president of Kenya." It doesn't SAY that Obama become born in Kenya, it says that Obama turned right into a Kenyan Citizen, that is because his father become. Obama become born interior the U. S. with twin citizenship. What Otunnu DID say: "there's a prospect that the U. S. would choose a president, a Luo president, earlier Kenya does... if people, White people, are prepared to choose someone of African heritage and not in any respect carry his race and ethnicity antagonistic to him, what are Africans doing holding ethnicity antagonistic to at least one yet another?... If Obama had grown up in Kenya on the daddy's facet truly of the moms, he would have had a lot less of a hazard of fixing into president of the U. S.."

Answer 8

I have a permanent resedency in US (green card) and I stay in Russia with my parents and I'll have my baby very soon! I will be a single mom. After a couple of weeks I plan to go back to US, can my daughter come back with me

Answer 9

Dual citizenship I think, but they would have to apply for it.

Answer 10

Child gets to choose at age eighteen