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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Has anyone heard about this?
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:44:37 -0400

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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