I lived in Asia as a foreigner, with my wife and kids for a lot of that time. In many countries there. I object to you categorizing my advice as opinion or conjecture. I would imagine all you know is what the Obamabots have told you which would mean that before you criticize you should check the facts.
He had Indonesian citizenship because he went to school there and citizenship is a requirement to go to government schools. It is also a requirement to be a muslim although as a child that can be waived so long as the child is receiving a muslim education.
If the father adopted the child it automatically becomes a citizen of Indonesia and if the adoption is not made the child cannot remain in the country. If this did not happen, then where is the documentation showing permanent residence or visitor status? Makes no sense. At about the age of 12 everybody has to have an ID card and citizenship is a requirement. If citizenship is waived (the person is shown as a visitor on a visa and the ID card is a different color) this is documented as well. I cannot imagine how his father could have done this anyway. Certain groups cannot get citizenship, such as aborigines and Chinese, but this did not apply to Obama's family.
Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship and it would be necessary to give up US citizenship in order to live there. However the US does not recognize a declaration renouncing citizenship unless it is made to a US official and if it is made by a parent or guardian or made under duress it can be reversed later. Certain acts are expatriating such as serving in a foreign military but generally the US does not take away US citizenship for a child and there are procedures to get it back.
Google dual citizenship US/Indonesia to learn more.
Also see
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1753.htmlIt is no big deal unless it is being hidden or denied, in which case any person interested in the truth would want to know why.
There is plenty of paperwork somewhere that details what happened and when it happened. It should show that Barack did not lose his US citizenship but what concerns me is that he did lose it and that is why he is hiding this.
We might be lax in our application of immigration rules and laws but I can assure you that this is not true in most other countries, especially in Asia.
These documents are all on file and it is easy to trace. If someone cares to do that. Many of the documents would help to show the President's status at the time and put this whole matter to bed. He, or someone on his staff, could easily do this so the question is why does he not do so? Is he hiding something? From reports, he is spending a lot of our money to keep this stuff quiet and even though he has an army of useful idiots beating his drum for him, somehow and sometime this will come out.
If he had been honest from the get-go we would not be having this discussion.
At the least, I hope we will never allow a future presidential applicant to get away with this again.
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