Under § 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States . . . .”
There are a few variances that also hold true in which the INA (Immigration and Nationality Act), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101 et seq., grants United States citizenship at birth:
when one or both parents are United States citizens; or
by using a combination of birth outside the United States and parental citizenship.
Under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000...
