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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are all posting as if children are born only to citizens or undocumented noncitizens. We have always had a lot of legal residents who are not citizens. Their children have always been citizens at birth. For a lot of our history, many foreign born women did not bother becoming naturalized even if they lived here for 30 years or more. [/quote] In many cases, that is because US law provided the when the head of the family was naturalized, the wife and children also gained citizenship at the same time. This happened to my grandmother's family - father arrived in the 1890s, mother and eldest child arrived 1 year later, subsequent children born in the US. Father naturalized and wife and eldest child also automatically become citizens. Neither wife nor eldest had to file individual naturalization paperwork. I don't know how long the law was like that (but it was a long time) [/quote]
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