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Interesting Question

If a child is born on an american base over seas (lets say in Japan) is said child considered american, or foreign? This question just popped up in the middle of the night and is bugging me.

Re: Interesting Question

  • An overseas base is considered American soil. The child would be considered a natural born citizen if born on that American soil.
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  • Anyone born to American parents automatically qualifies for American citizenship, so the place of birth, while not exactly irrelevant, isn't the sole determining factor in determining someone's nationality.
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  • imagekpol8:
    An overseas base is considered American soil. The child would be considered a natural born citizen if born on that American soil.

    To an extent, yes. RAF Lakenheath & RAF Mildenhall are leased from the British government, which creates issues of primacy for different base emergencies. For instance, in the event of a bomb threat on Lakenheath soil NOT in a US building, my H and his fellow techs would have to defer to British EOD. In the same vein, children are first issued a British birth certificate and THEN a US one. It's weird, adn the main reason we waited until we knew we would be back stateside before getting pregnant/giving birth. 

  • I have nieces that were born overseas. One was born in a German hospital and she was offered dual citizenship. My niece born in England (at lakenheath) has a medical number in England and her name is written down in that town's records but she's not a citizen. My SIL was born in japan and she is a us citizen.
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  • Not all overseas bases are us soil. Many are joint with the host nation. But, it doesn't matter. A child born to us parents is american. I could be an expat and give birth in a foreign hospital yet my child would be able to claim american citizenship. Plus not all overseas bases have a clinic capable of higher risk delivery so you have american military giving birth in local hospitals, and they've not denied citizenship bc of that.
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