Running as a party's candidate and actually being voted in as US president are two different things.
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child born in india or USA? which is better?
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Running as a party's candidate and actually being voted in as US president are two different things.
I strongly disagree with this statement. My kid is not using the public school system and I still need to pay exorbitant school tax. Same for my neighbor who does not even have kids.
oh I see.. how much tax?
Running as a party's candidate and actually being voted in as US president are two different things.
Challenge to candidacies are usually made before/when the name appears on the ballot, not after the vote takes place. There was no successful challenges to these candidacies.
Challenge to candidacies are usually made before/when the name appears on the ballot, not after the vote takes place. There was no successful challenges to these candidacies.
Appearing on the ballot for US president does not guarantee that the electoral college would automatically vote in the winner. A constitutional challenge can still be made after a candidate wins an election.
Appearing on the ballot for US president does not guarantee that the electoral college would automatically vote in the winner. A constitutional challenge can still be made after a candidate wins an election.
In theory yes. However there has been no such case to date.
Plus taking into consideration the viciousness of presidential campaigns here in the US (specially in 2008),there would be no way for an ineligible candidate to make it pass the primary let alone the general election. Even for McCain, there were ideas floating around (remember) but the opposition's failure to challenge his candidacy is proof to the weakness of the case/argument.
Jackolantern
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The phrase "natural born citizen" has never been clearly defined in court or legislation. It is not certain that acquiring citizenship at birth is necessarily the same as "natural born citizen". I'm sure that if/whenever it is challenged, being born on US soil to non-diplomats will be included in the definition of "natural born citizen". But the scenarios involving acquiring citizenship at birth outside the US are not so certain, especially when considering that the law requires various "unnatural" criteria like the amount of time the parents have lived in the US after age 14, with different rules applying based on whether the birth was before 1986, etc.
Jackolantern
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By "diplomats" I was referring to non-US diplomats. Their children don't get US citizenship from being born on US soil.
ZAPPATA007
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Hi.
I have similar situation, my wife (GC holder) already gave birth to twins 2 months ago (overseas) and now has been outside the US for 11 months with me.
I am a USC...BUT without the 5-year residency requirement to transmit naturalization to them overseas.
Can the twins enter as children of an LPR mom (just before she clicks the 12-month outside the US), get an I-151 stamp and then I use this in the US to apply for their US passport as children of USC having entred the US as lpr?
Please help as time is running out !!
Thanks,
I have similar situation, my wife (GC holder) already gave birth to twins 2 months ago (overseas) and now has been outside the US for 11 months with me.
I am a USC...BUT without the 5-year residency requirement to transmit naturalization to them overseas.
Can the twins enter as children of an LPR mom (just before she clicks the 12-month outside the US), get an I-151 stamp and then I use this in the US to apply for their US passport as children of USC having entred the US as lpr?
Please help as time is running out !!
Thanks,
BritishGuy
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If you have insurance, just have them in the US - trust me, you'll save yourself a lot of headache. If you don't have insurance just have it in India.
My wife (from Pakistan) is expecting, She was on a B-1 had some of the best medical coverage here (under my insurance). She is an MD (USMLEs all done, waiting for residency to start). She practiced in PK for many years and we're going through a nightmare right now. She got a 2 wk stamp in her passport on her last visit. I'm a UK national so I just sent her to the UK. She can't use public funds there so I'm having to pay private. Here's the OMG part: private in the UK will cost in the region of 12,000 GBP (approx $20000) for one night ONLY - NO COMPLICATIONS. I've been waiting for my citizenship for over a year now. Filed N-400 Oct 2008. If I get my citizenship before the end of Jan, then I'm calling her here straight away (am going to try DCF). I am a Pilot so live both here and there (well, kinda - I think I live in the sky half the time). Will try my best to get her here for the birth. I don't want to go though my headache with the USCIS and government paperwork if I can help it. It doesn't let you just get on with life. Well, that's how I feel right now. Me being here and pregnant wife in UK just feels so crap right now. I'm just lucky in the fact that we can go back and forth for pennies. Well, I can anyway - I just don't want to risk her trying to come back and being turned away.
So in short - if you have insurance save the future paperwork and headache, just have the baby in US. If funds won't allow it then just have the birth India. I know plenty of people not born in the USA and they turned out just fine! But really lets just pray for healthy babies and may the powers that be just make easy paths for them to live freely, wherever they are born.
My wife (from Pakistan) is expecting, She was on a B-1 had some of the best medical coverage here (under my insurance). She is an MD (USMLEs all done, waiting for residency to start). She practiced in PK for many years and we're going through a nightmare right now. She got a 2 wk stamp in her passport on her last visit. I'm a UK national so I just sent her to the UK. She can't use public funds there so I'm having to pay private. Here's the OMG part: private in the UK will cost in the region of 12,000 GBP (approx $20000) for one night ONLY - NO COMPLICATIONS. I've been waiting for my citizenship for over a year now. Filed N-400 Oct 2008. If I get my citizenship before the end of Jan, then I'm calling her here straight away (am going to try DCF). I am a Pilot so live both here and there (well, kinda - I think I live in the sky half the time). Will try my best to get her here for the birth. I don't want to go though my headache with the USCIS and government paperwork if I can help it. It doesn't let you just get on with life. Well, that's how I feel right now. Me being here and pregnant wife in UK just feels so crap right now. I'm just lucky in the fact that we can go back and forth for pennies. Well, I can anyway - I just don't want to risk her trying to come back and being turned away.
So in short - if you have insurance save the future paperwork and headache, just have the baby in US. If funds won't allow it then just have the birth India. I know plenty of people not born in the USA and they turned out just fine! But really lets just pray for healthy babies and may the powers that be just make easy paths for them to live freely, wherever they are born.
zappata007,
I've already answered on your other thread. Depending on your exact circumstances you have a good chance of getting the twins an easy Green Card. In order to get them citizenship I think the whole family will have to travel to the US as I mentioned in my other post.
I've already answered on your other thread. Depending on your exact circumstances you have a good chance of getting the twins an easy Green Card. In order to get them citizenship I think the whole family will have to travel to the US as I mentioned in my other post.
One thing to remember, if you want to go back to India for good - and put your kids through school there - be prepared for HUUGGEEEE bills. Education for NRI kids on OCI/PIO is a very costly affair, a very very costly affair. From what I was told - you just cannot enrol them in random school.