Currently, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service would classify children born abroad to U.S. parents as “residing in the United States,” even though they technically weren’t. That designation, however, would automatically allow them to acquire citizenship.
Officials said that approach caused a bureaucratic headache with the State Department when it came to issuing passports.
USCIS officials determined that after Oct. 29, 2019, children born overseas to some American parents wouldn’t automatically be classified as residing in the U.S. Certain parents would have to apply for citizenship on their child’s behalf before they turn 18.
“This policy aligns USCIS’ process with the Department of State’s procedure, that’s it,” Acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli said in a statement.
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Will Attig, executive director of the AFL-CIO Union Veterans Council, still called the plan an “abomination.”
“When you raise your right hand to volunteer to die for your country, the least our nation can do is repay that debt,” Attig said in a statement on Thursday. “This is a direct attack on the values that the men and women who serve our country valiantly fight and die for, and the ideas our nation was built on.”
Sourse: abcnews.go.com
