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These two cases should be treated differently:

1) A kid is born in the US with at least one legal permanent resident parent

2) A kid is born in the US without at least one legal permanent resident parent[/quote]

No citizenship for either unless at least one parent is a US citizen and the other parent is of legal immigration status[/quote]

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Not sure why people cannot wrap their brains around that idea.  Legal status means nothing. Citizenship only if at least one parent is a citizen. Virtually every other country does this. [/quote]

NP. You need to also include permanent residents (green cards). Permanent residents are people who the US government has agreed can stay here and set up a life here forever. We are immigrants and while our kids have citizenships of our other countries (since one parent has that citizenship), our kids have never left the US and may never.[/quote]

Why don’t you become a citizen? I think parents should demonstrate commitment to becoming citizens if they want their kids to be citizens. If someone is a permanent resident waiting to become a citizen, their kids can be granted citizenship when the parents become citizens.[/quote]

Because in the majority of cases this would involve relinquishing our original citizenships and our passports would be gone. We would be tourists in our own countries and hardly be able to go back if we needed to (to fix affairs for aging parents etc). I don’t think that’s a reasonable request. In many cases people bring their families here (chain migration) but we’re from developed countries (ones that DCUM talk about moving to) and our families would prefer to stay there than try to come here. Of all the issues with migration in this country, I don’t think giving green card holders (who came here as highly skilled workers on appropriate visas) American citizenship for their kids who were born here after being granted green cards should be on the list of concerns.[/quote]

DP. But it’s not the US that makes it difficult to hold dual citizenship, it’s those other countries. So maybe it makes sense to lobby for a change of laws there to allow dual citizenship? And even if that’s not realistic, while it would suck to give up your other citizenship, I actually do think it’s reasonable to make that choice IF you intend to live here permanently and want citizenship for your children. If you’re from a first-world European country, then your kids would have citizenship there and aren’t in a bad spot overall. Sometimes people have to make choices. My own parents gave up their Indian passports (with the side effects that they had legal difficulties inheriting property in India, had to get visas until they received special “citizenship light” status, etc.) - not everything is easy.

To be clear, I’m not arguing that we shouldn’t give birthright citizenship to the kids of green card holders. My preferred policy is that a child is entitled to birthright citizenship if (i) both parents  have permanent legal status or (ii) at least one parent is a citizen. [/quote]

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