According to Wong Kim Ark ones born outside of the country are naturalized by the act of Congress, not natural-born
Posted on | January 8, 2016 | No Comments
According to Wong Kim Ark ones born outside of the country are naturalized by the act of Congress, not natural-born:
United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S. 649 (1898): “Every person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof becomes at once a citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization. A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized, either by treaty, as in the case of the annexation of foreign territory; or by authority of Congress, exercised either by declaring certain classes of persons to be citizens, as in the enactments conferring citizenship upon foreign-born children of citizens, or by enabling foreigners individually to become citizens by proceedings in the judicial tribunals, as in the ordinary provisions of the naturalization acts.”
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