Timeline for What Happens to Abandoned Infant Citizenship?
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| May 8, 2019 at 14:11 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | See also discussion of an interesting hypothetical case: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/125062/… law.stackexchange.com/questions/8544/… | |
| May 8, 2019 at 11:59 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | This is really many questions at once. My answer covers the case of abandoned children (with unknown parents), but it doesn't cover the many other hypotheticals you are concerned with, such as children with known parents but none of the standard documentation of birth. What constitutes legally accepted documentation of birth varies by jurisdiction; sworn testimony of a certified midwife, or even just a witness, may suffice. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 11:55 | answer | added | zibadawa timmy | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 8, 2019 at 6:25 | comment | added | Eliter | @NateEldredge As far as I am concerned, the United States constitution was amended so that anyone born in the United States IS a citizen of the United States. It is not up to the states/counties if they want to play around with citizenship. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 6:06 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Birth registration in the US is handled by states or counties, so it would depend on the laws and regulations of that state/county. Do you have a particular location in mind? Typically this is handled by a "department of vital statistics" or some similarly named agency. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 5:24 | history | asked | Eliter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |