[Homestead] Has anyone heard about this?
Lynn Wigglesworth
lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 22 09:44:37 EDT 2009
From: "Lynda" <lurine at com-pair.net>
> Now, on to the passport issue. Indonesia has a rather different type of
> passport for a "foreign" woman married to an Indonesian man if she doesn't
> apply for citizenship. And, if she applies for citizenship she has to
> give
> up her country of origin citizenship. Now, her children would get the
> same
> type of passport and wouldn't be able to get an Indonesian passport once
> mom
> and dad divorced! UNLESS he had been legally adopted AND became a citizen
> of Indonesia.
Lots of 'ifs' in there, and no evidence that any of it actually happened.
The simplest explaination is that he had a US passport. The piece that
Marie quoted from the NYT travel section
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/14/travel/lahore-a-survivor-with-a-bittersweet-history.html?&pagewanted=1
certainly suggests that there were Americans travelling as tourists in
those countries in 1981.
According to the US State Department, a parent cannot renounce US
citizenship of minor children. IF Obama was legally adopted, and IF he
became a citizen of Indonesia, he'd have dual citizenship. Unless he
officially renounced his US citizenship (or committed one of the acts that
loses your citizenship), he's still a citizen.
Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
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