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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't a G4 visa a nonimmigrant visa given to people working at an international organization? How could you foster or adopt if you have no security in staying in the country? [/quote]

She probably cannot foster but adopt? Come on.  Americans adopt kids from other countries all the time. Why not adopt an American child and move him elsewhere? [b]He or she will retain their citizenship regardless.[/b] [/quote]

This sounds inaccurate. Once the adoption is final, the child will have the citizenship of his/her parents. I’ve known many people who adopted from abroad — the Chinese baby became American like her parents, same for the Nigerian and Guatemalan babies. I have never heard of an adopted child being able to keep her citizenship of birth after an overseas adoption is completed. It would be very surprising if American adoptees were allowed to do so. The whole situation sounds bizarre. 
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It doesn't really matter what it sounds like to you.  The baby may obtain the citizenship of their adopted parents but all that baby has to do after 18 is walk into a U.S. Embassy anywhere on the planet and produce a birth certificate proving they were born inside the U.S.  Whatever happened to them after they climbed out of someone's vagina in the U.S. is irrelevant.  If born here, they are a citizen. [/quote]

What are you talking about?  Parents would have to apply for citizenship in their country for their child.  Then, kid either gets dual citizenship, citizenship till 18 and has to choose a country or  when they apply for new citizenship give up the US.  It really depends on the country.[/quote]

That wasn't the question.  The question was whether an American-born baby adopted by foreign parents will retain his or her American citizenship.  The answer is unquestionably, unreservedly yes.  He or she will.  As long as he or she can produce a birth certificate proving that the baby was born in the U.S., an American passport will be issued to them in any U.S. embassy on earth.   Nothing except a fact of adult renunciation will rid this baby of his or her U.S. citizenship.  It doesn't matter what the parents do.  It doesn't matter what their new country does or does not do.  If a baby is born in the U.S., that baby is entitled to the U.S. passport, end of story.  [/quote]

This isn't exactly true.  It depends on the state the parents are from and if the parents get citizenship in that country and the rules between the US and that country.  The baby will be a US citizen but if they return home and get the child citizenship in another country some don't allow dual citizenship.  They'd need to talk to an attorney.[/quote]

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