Tuesday, November 11, 2008

I hold the Title, and it ain't no Pink Slip

-CITE-
8 USC Sec. 1408 01/03/2007

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TITLE 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
CHAPTER 12 - IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
SUBCHAPTER III - NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
Part I - Nationality at Birth and Collective Naturalization

-HEAD-
Sec. 1408. Nationals but not citizens of the United States at birth

-STATUTE-
Unless otherwise provided in section 1401 of this title, the
following shall be nationals, but not citizens, of the United
States at birth:
(1) A person born in an outlying possession of the United States
on or after the date of formal acquisition of such possession;
(2) A person born outside the United States and its outlying
possessions of parents both of whom are nationals, but not
citizens, of the United States, and have had a residence in the
United States, or one of its outlying possessions prior to the
birth of such person;
(3) A person of unknown parentage found in an outlying possession
of the United States while under the age of five years, until
shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to
have been born in such outlying possession; and
(4) A person born outside the United States and its outlying
possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a
national, but not a citizen, of the United States who, prior to the
birth of such person, was physically present in the United States
or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not
less than seven years in any continuous period of ten years -
(A) during which the national parent was not outside the United
States or its outlying possessions for a continuous period of
more than one year, and
(B) at least five years of which were after attaining the age
of fourteen years.

The proviso of section 1401(g) of this title shall apply to the
national parent under this paragraph in the same manner as it
applies to the citizen parent under that section.

-SOURCE-
(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, Sec. 308, 66 Stat. 238;
Pub. L. 99-396, Sec. 15(a), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 842; Pub. L.
100-525, Sec. 3(2), Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2614.)


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AMENDMENTS
1988 - Par. (4). Pub. L. 100-525 amended Pub. L. 99-396. See 1986
Amendment note below.
1986 - Par. (4). Pub. L. 99-396, as amended by Pub. L. 100-525,
added par. (4).

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1988 AMENDMENT
Section 3 of Pub. L. 100-525 provided that the amendment made by
that section is effective as if included in the enactment of Pub.
L. 99-396.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1986 AMENDMENT
Section 15(b) of Pub. L. 99-396 provided that: "The amendment
made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply to
persons born before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this
Act [Aug. 27, 1986]. In the case of a person born before the date
of the enactment of this Act -
"(1) the status of a national of the United States shall not be
considered to be conferred upon the person until the date the
person establishes to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State
that the person meets the requirements of section 308(4) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act [par. (4) of this section], and
"(2) the person shall not be eligible to vote in any general
election in American Samoa earlier than January 1, 1987."

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Once Again. Barack Obama does NOT fit the category as a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN, therefor he is NOT qualified to be President.

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