Ted Cruz Citizenship Timeline: Ted Cruz is Canadian at birth. Period.

[Samantha]

63. That is what I was wondering

It is not clear that his Mom had both US and Canadian citizenship when Ted was born. But if he renounced his Canadian citizenship and he had no US citizenship, doesn't that make him a man without a country? And one has to be a US citizen in order to be a Senator??? So Ted Cruz must have had a reason to believe he was a US citizen or he would not have renounced his Canadian citizenship. I read above that a person can be stripped of their US citizenship if they choose to become a citizen of another Country after the age of 18 (I believe that it what I read) but I am pretty sure not everyone is.

And then there is this: my brother worked for the State Department and was in England during the time two of his three children were born. I asked about their citizenship at that time, and my brother told me they would carry dual citizenship until they were 18, and then they had to choose which citizenship they wanted to retain.

On the other hand, my daughter, clearly an American citizen, born in Washington, DC of two American parents married a man from Chile. They had two children and spend most of the school year here, but have spent summers there and time at Christmas. They have bought property there and will be putting a second home on the land. My daughter told me she was going to apply for citizenship in Chile some time ago. They want their children to be totally at home with the American culture and the Chilean culture. I believe they both carry dual citizenships, but I am going to be checking all of this out this week, just to get the facts straight.

This thing with Cruz is a maze. The whole thing seems to rest on whether his mother was able to retain her US citizenship but of course you have that quote "a naturalized Canadian mom who claims to have once been an American."

So where does this leave Ted Cruz if she surrendered her US citizenship? As a man not eligible to run for President or to be a Senator...????

Sam