If your born in a US territory such as Guam or Puerto Rico, are you considered a US citizen?

Question

If your born in a US territory such as Guam or Puerto Rico, are you considered a US citizen?

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Answer 1

Guam and Puerto Rico are not alike.
Guam is still a non governing US territory.
Puerto Rico is self governing in a free association with the US as a commonwealth since 1952.
Also Puerto Ricans have Puerto Rican citizenship and also are statutory us citizens (this statutory citizenship is not permanent since the association is not permanent one and can change if PR is fully independent).

Answer 2

People born in Puerto Rico are US citizen. That's why they come to the states like any other US citizen, no immigration involved, you just buy your plane tkt.

Answer 3

Yes you are

Every person born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction is a citizen. For other rules governing the acquisition of citizenship, see chapters 1 and 2 of title III of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1401-1459). For rules governing loss of citizenship, see sections 349 to 357, inclusive, of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1481-1489), Schneider v. Rusk, (1964) 377 U.S. 163, and Rev. Rul. 70-506, C.B. 1970-2, 1. For rules pertaining to persons who are nationals but not citizens at birth, e.g., a person born in American Samoa, see section 308 of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1408). For special rules applicable to certain expatriates who have lost citizenship with a principal purpose of avoiding certain taxes, see section 877. A foreigner who has filed his declaration of intention of becoming a citizen but who has not yet been admitted to citizenship by a final order of a naturalization court is an alien.

Notice the term “born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction”, which means the exclusive legislative jurisdiction of the federal government within its territories and possessions only under Title 48 of the U.S. Code. If they meant to include states of the Union, they would have used “their jurisdiction” or “the jurisdiction” as used in section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment instead of “its jurisdiction”. The above definition of “citizen” applying exclusively to the Internal Revenue Code reveals that it depends on 8 U.S.C. §1401, which we said earlier in section 4.11.3 and its subsections means a person born in a U.S. territory or possession. These people possess a special "non-constitutional" class of citizenship that is not covered by the Fourteenth Amendment or any other part of the Constitution.

Answer 4

U.S citizenship is full of ****.check this out ...anyone born in u.s soil is a u.s citizen is completely wrong ,that's why most foreigners takes advantage of that to give birth in u.s .and that makes u.s citizenship not a real one because if you are a foreigner or a child of a foreigner with no ties to u.s why would you have right to be a u.s citizen ? That makes no sense because only the actual u.s citizens and their families should have the right to have u.s citizenship.another bullshit is u.s citizen and u.s national crap and that is so strange .a u.s citizen and u.s national can have the same passport but a u.s national is same as a green card holder and can't vote in elections so they must be naturalized in order to be u.s citizens ....that's how ****** up this fake ****** citizenship is
Most Asians especially Filipinos used that Guam connection to move to Hawaii and via Hawaii to the mainland u.s .Koreans did the same .so above all u.s citizenship is just full of ****.

Answer 5

Yes. My husband was born in Puerto Rico and is a citizen of the US.

Answer 6

A "natural born" citizen may run for president. If you have citizenship at birth, regardless of the place of that birth, you qualify. And yes, there are many "natural born" citizens born outside of the US and its territories. Only naturalized citizens do not qualify.

Answer 7

I believe you are with restrictions such as voting and running for federal government or presidency.

Answer 8

My sister was born in Tachikowa, Japan (my dad was military) and she is a citizen.

Answer 9

Hi.i worked in saipan years ago and gave birth with 2 babies.during my stay in saipan my status is a worker.my question is my two kids is us citizen.by the way we are here in our country already.

Answer 10

Yup