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Child Born Abroad to Unwed U.S. Citizen Father

October 31st, 2019 | automatic citizenship

Under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States … are citizens of the United States.”[i] Citizenship by birth also includes persons born in certain territories under U.S. control, i.e., Puerto Rico.[ii] Although the United States is defined as “the several States, the District of Columbia, Puerto […]