My parents are both American citizens (born here, as were my grandparents and so on -- my dad and both grandfathers are/were veterans, for that matter), but my dad's engineering company sent him to work in Japan for six months and my little brother was born there. We moved back to the U.S. a few months later. By your logic he would be Japanese, but he's an American citizen with a certificate of birth abroad.powerboatr wrote:he was born in canada and his folks were not active duty military or working in a military or American zone, much like the canal zone of panama or in a diplomatic position.
even if his folks were working in canada for an oil company and they retained their citizenship as legal workers in Canada, he was still born there so in my little brain he is a Canadian.
In Cruz's case there's still the question of his father's citizenship, but being born abroad in and of itself doesn't have any bearing on the issue as far as I'm aware.