Originally Posted by
jfulcher
If you were born on a military base you are very eligible for US president.
Being born on a US military base in foreign lands does not make the person eligible for US President. There are those who are born on US military bases in foreign lands who are not considered born citizens of the US. How can that be? It is due to federal laws that children born on a US military base or even at a US embassy in a foreign country are
not born citizens of the US unless one or both parents is a US citizen and some additional conditions are met.
Those children entitled at birth to get their own FS-240 -- having received the FS-240 without the application involving misrepresentation on substantive elements -- are born US citizens, regardless of being born on or beyond a US facility . While most persons born on a US military base are likely to be born US citizens entitled to an FS-240 documenting such, not all persons born on a US military base -- including some children born to US military personnel -- are entitled to an FS-240 or any other document reflecting US citizenship at birth.
Children entitled at birth to get their own FS-240 are born US citizens regardless of being born at or beyond a US government facility (diplomatic, military or otherwise). And it doesn't matter if the parents are or are not assigned abroad in official service at the time of birth as the standards are substantively the same for non-government personnel as for government personnel except that the condition of physical presence in the US is relaxed so as to allow for official service time abroad (of parent or of self) to be counted for that purpose too.
Originally Posted by
ralfp
Really? When does one have to pay the visa application fee? If it's after showing up, then I could see late-term pregnant women being frequent applicants for US visas.
The tone may be facetious, but the implied question is not.
Being born on US embassy grounds -- even if born to US citizen parent(s) working in the US embassy -- does not make the person a born citizen of the US unless certain other criteria are met by the US citizen parent(s) at the time of the birth. While most US citizens working in the US embassy would qualify to have their children considered born citizens of the US, not all of the children born to such US citizen parents do qualify to be born citizens of the US.
Originally Posted by
Princess1
Originally Posted by
mre5765
Where in the U.S. Constitution is a "natural born citizen" defined?
Any person born on US soil or to US citizens.
It's more like a natural-born citizen of the US is: any person born on US soil (who is neither the child of a foreign diplomat accredited to the US nor a child of the accredited foreign diplomat's foreign-citizen dependents); and most (but not all) persons born to US citizen parent(s) outside of the US.