ACQUISITION OF CITIZENSHIP FOR CHILDREN BORN OUTSIDE THE U.S. IN WEDLOCK

ACQUISITION OF CITIZENSHIP FOR CHILDREN BORN OUTSIDE THE U.S. IN WEDLOCK











NOTES:
1. Absence of less than 12 months in the aggregate will not break residence; absence of less than 60 days in the aggregate will not break continuity of physical presence. Honorable service in the U.S. Armed Forces counts as residence or physical presence.
2. A child is relieved from the retention requirements if, prior to his 18th birthday, the child begins to reside permanently in the U.S. and the alien parent naturalizes.
3. Includes periods spent abroad while employed by the U.S. government or an international organization OR as the dependent unmarried son or daughter member of the household of such employee.
4. Public Law 95-432 of October 10, 1978 repealed retention requirements prospectively only. Anyone born on or after 10/11/52 (i.e., not age 26 on 10/10/78) no longer had retention requirements.

* Mother added because of Technical Amendments of 1994.
** Retention requirements were repealed because of Technical Amendments of 1994, which made a process available for restoration.