FYI
Acquisition of U.S. Citizenship by a Child Born Abroad
Birth Abroad to One Citizen and One Alien Parent in Wedlock
A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the INA provided the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child's birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five years physical presence, two after the age of fourteen, is required. For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen, is required for physical presence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child.) The U.S. citizen parent must be the genetic or the gestational parent and the legal parent of the child under local law at the time and place of the child’s birth to transmit U.S. citizenship.
Yep, I understand that. But the bonehead OP is stating that Cruz' mother renounced her citizenship. Obviously that didn't happen.
It happened when she was married to her expatriate first husband in England 6 years before Ted was born.
Steve_McGarrett
Prove it dingbat.
he can't prove any of it because it didn't happen....her first husband never renounced his citizenship and he has not to this very day, tried to gain citizenship in England either....from what I've read.
His mother has never given up her citizenship either. She and his father married in the USA before they moved to Canada and they had only lived in Canada less than a year before he was born and then moved back to Texas shortly thereafter....
What I can't find is a date his mother and father married... and a date on when Cruz's father was divorced from his first wife,
and whether his father and mother are divorced now? not that any of that matters in Cruz's natural born citizenship...just out of my own curiosity....
She also met all requirements for any child that she gave birth to overseas, to automatically be born a USA citizen...living at minimum 10 years in the USA with 5 of those years after the age of 14.