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Nye Bevan

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8. If they have US passports they are full US citizens and there is no reason for anyone to "blink".

Reply to EdwardBernays (Reply #7)

Thu Jan 7, 2016, 08:59 AM

Jan 2016

It's just that when they have kids themselves, those kids (your grandchildren) will not automatically be US citizens unless your kids have lived in the US prior to the birth.

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Ad infinitum EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #3

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I see that EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #7

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