This one is defiantly going to court….
It has be straight from Stephen Miller …..
You volunteer to serve the United States and are shipped oversea’s …Do your children born during that time lose their citizenship?…
We’ll keep and eye on this one….
Somehow I do think Miller/Trump get over on this one….
The Trump administration said Wednesday that the children of some U.S. military members and government employees working overseas will no longer automatically be considered United States citizens.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a policy that in some cases rescinds previous guidance stating that children of U.S. service members and other government employees abroad are considered “residing in the United States” and automatically given citizenship under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
USCIS issued a clarification to the rule later Wednesday, explaining that the new rule would only affect three categories of people: Children of non-U.S. citizens adopted by U.S. citizen government employees or service members; children of non-U.S. citizen government employees or service members who were naturalized after the child’s birth; and children of U.S. citizens who do not meet residency requirements.
The policy guidance issued Wednesday stated that USCIS “no longer considers children of U.S. government employees and U.S. armed forces members residing outside the United States as ‘residing in the United States’ for purposes of acquiring citizenship under INA 320.”
The rollout of the new rule quickly sparked widespread confusion, leading some to believe that many more individuals would be affected than in actuality.
“This kind of memo is the sort of thing that you don’t put out to the general public without a very bold-faced letter executive summary saying ‘Here’s what this does not do,’” said Bradley Moss, a lawyer with expertise in national security.
“This changes nothing if you are a child born overseas to two U.S. citizens on a military base or just overseas in general – you are fine as a matter of law … you are still considered a U.S. citizen so long as one of your parents had been a physical resident within the United States,” he added.
Moss said that the pool of individuals who would be affected would likely be small.
The thrust of the memo, Moss surmised, is to prevent individuals who are either adopting a child born overseas to non-U.S. citizen parents or people who have little connection to the United States from “shoehorn[ing] their way into citizenship.”
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“This policy update does not affect who is born a U.S. citizen, period. This only affects children who were born outside the United States and were not U.S. citizens. This does NOT impact birthright citizenship,” he said in a statement later released by USCIS….
I know that this will go over great at the next convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, many of whose members, while serving their country overseas, adopted children originally borne by Chinese, Japanese, German, Filipino, Korean or Indochinese mothers.
I also wonder if this rule would have excluded the candidacies of John McCain and Ted Cruz.