A person is born a US citizen if he or she has parents who

A child born outside the United States may acquire U.S. citizenship at birth through a U.S.-citizen parent, if the legal requirements are met. The parents can live outside the country; their citizenship, not their current residence, is the key fact. Parents who merely want to become citizens or who once lived in the United States do not pass on citizenship on that basis alone.

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