Florida Man, At 64, Finds Out He's Not An American Citizen.
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Its a pretty common sense question that should have been asked. My birth certificate is not from America, where is my citizenship paperwork? This is a pretty bad situation for him, but you make an exception for one person then you need to make an exception for millions of people.
Not its not.
We don't actually define citizenship by where you are born. And its not that hard to believe that an American would assume their child is an American just by being their child/parent.
They assumed wrong, but that certainly isn't common sense since most Americans are born here and this is a unique situation.
I had to show my birth certificate to get a passport.
I had to show my birth certificate to get the new "real ID", and my understanding is that they are good for only 10 to 8 years. So how in the world did this guy get one without a legit background check?
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Children born of US citizens are citizens no matter where they are born, but there are some caveats to that.
In this case, they cannot find where his father had established a physical presence and satisfied the residence requirements in this country within a 10-year period before the child was born.
But in a 2022 denial letter, the agency stated Klass didn’t provide enough evidence to prove his father lived in the U.S. for 10 years before Klass was born, which is a requirement for a child seeking citizenship through a parent.
The guy doesn't seem all that bummed out about it and said he'll go back to Canada if things don't work out. But I hope they do get this straightened out, or at least as one poster had mentioned...pay him back all of the money he'd paid in...and with interest.
If he's here illegally he's entitled to all sorts of freebies from the Biden administration. Healthcare, prepaid debit cards, preferred housing. He hit the jackpot!
My American citizen child had to apply for Australian citizenship when we moved to Australia, but there were no requirements except to prove lineage.
So my child’s “citizen by decent” Australian citizenship was granted as soon as the paperwork was verified.
It was just a matter of formality.
Given this guy was born to a US parent, I would assume he was automatically entitled to citizenship but the formality was not followed through on. If he has access to his father’s records then it should be a matter of filing the paperwork and making it official. I’m not sure exactly how it works in the US.
Of course being 2 on arrival having a SSN would lead one to believe that had been taken care of at some point. He was not being intentionally deceptive. Records would not have been computerised in his childhood, so we can’t hold him to today’s standards.
Children born of US citizens are citizens no matter where they are born, but there are some caveats to that.
In this case, they cannot find where his father had established a physical presence and satisfied the residence requirements in this country within a 10-year period before the child was born.
But in a 2022 denial letter, the agency stated Klass didn’t provide enough evidence to prove his father lived in the U.S. for 10 years before Klass was born, which is a requirement for a child seeking citizenship through a parent.
The guy doesn't seem all that bummed out about it and said he'll go back to Canada if things don't work out. But I hope they do get this straightened out, or at least as one poster had mentioned...pay him back all of the money he'd paid in...and with interest.
So, people have been talking about this one. Jimmy Klass, who was born in Canada to a Canadian mother and American father, came to the US when he was 2. Went to school, the military, had ID's and voted and had a social security card, but when he went to collect, he finds out he is not an American citizen.
If he was born to an American Citizen father, I'm pretty sure that makes him a citizen of the USA.
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