I'm not up to date on my Canadian citizenship fluency, but this is interesting.
I'm not up to date on my Canadian citizenship fluency, but this is interesting. Even more so this is the DC Conservative Examiner. Seems at least one conservative thinks Cruz's citizenship is questionable.
Originally shared by Reverend Eric Ha
So apparently Canada didn't allow dual citizenship until 1977, and Cruz was born in 1970. In order for him to be a natural born U.S. citizen his mother would have had to file a "CRBA (Consular Report of Birth Abroad) to "obtain" exclusive US citizenship at the time for her son Ted and renounced his automatic "naturally acquired" Canadian citizenship." which doesn't appear to have happened. Can anyone confirm this? This just makes the whole ordeal that much juicier.
http://www.examiner.com/article/proof-that-ted-cruz-did-not-become-a-us-citizen-at-birth
Originally shared by Reverend Eric Ha
So apparently Canada didn't allow dual citizenship until 1977, and Cruz was born in 1970. In order for him to be a natural born U.S. citizen his mother would have had to file a "CRBA (Consular Report of Birth Abroad) to "obtain" exclusive US citizenship at the time for her son Ted and renounced his automatic "naturally acquired" Canadian citizenship." which doesn't appear to have happened. Can anyone confirm this? This just makes the whole ordeal that much juicier.
http://www.examiner.com/article/proof-that-ted-cruz-did-not-become-a-us-citizen-at-birth
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Regardless Cruz's parents were not of that status so the exception does not apply.
At birth under Canadian law he became a Canadian. Under US law because his mother was a US citizen he also became a US citizen. He has since renounced his Canadian citizenship.
The only question is whether he meets the "natural born citizen" requirement. I think generally constitutional scholars agree that he does.
Like I said, I'm not up to date on my Canadian citizen legalities so I don't know how accurate this article is.
You don't lose American citizenship by marriage and living abroad.
The US supreme court has never ruled on the subject though-- thus there is potential for dispute.
Ted's Father has publicly admitted he became a Canadian citizen in 1968. If his mother's first husband with surname of "Wilson" was also a Canadian citizen (unconfirmed), she would have become a citizen before his father. Even if her first husband was not Canadian, according to Canadian law, she would still have automatically become a Canadian citizen in 1969 after having a Canadian spouse (Ted's Father) and residing in Canada for 1 year. This information substantiates the reports claiming that both of his parents appeared on the Canadian voter's rolls. There is now an unconfirmed claim that someone has supposedly verified that they indeed both voted in the October of 1972 federal Canadian election.
I get it, it was a little further into the article than the title but it's an important paragraph.
Again, I'm not an expert on Canadian immigration law, but this does raise some questions as to his legal status at birth.
Being registered to vote could easily have been an error. because of the manual process of gathering voters lists in that era.
I notice there are a a lot of "unconfirmed" statements in that paragraph -- those "unconfirmed" statements are the crux of this conspiracy theory.
The one thing that is true however is that took Cruz much longer to renounce his Canadian citizenship than is normal or expected so there is at least the appearance that there was a problem (the usual problem apparently is that that renouncer would become stateless).
For example, if I go to Canada tomorrow and become a citizen then my US citizenship is cancelled.
If I change my citizenship, whether proactively or reactively, does the government, through the back end get notified of that change? I mean, when I move across state lines and change my citizenship, I don't have to contact the state I left and let them know, I just let the state I've moved to do all that work for me.
There are some countries where dual citizenship is not allowed, some where it is impossible to renounce your citizenship. Neither Canada nor the US is one of those.
There was an update to the law in 1977 that specifically mentions dual citizenship and affirms its legality. But that was not a change - it was just a codification of already existing status.
_In order for Ted Cruz to have "become" a US citizen at birth in 1970, his mother would have had to retain exclusive citizenship to the US and filed a CRBA (Consular Report of Birth Abroad) to "obtain" exclusive US citizenship at the time for her son Ted and renounced his automatic "naturally acquired" Canadian citizenship. The process in itself is considered a very abbreviated form of "naturalization", thereby making such persons born outside of the OFFICIAL territories of the United States absolutely ineligible to become President of these United States in at least this one circumstance alone. Given that Canadian law did not allow dual citizenship at the time, then IF his mother filed a CRBA in 1970, his Canadian citizenship would likely have needed to be renounced before a new US citizenship could be granted.
Ted's Father has publicly admitted he became a Canadian citizen in 1968. If his mother's first husband with surname of "Wilson" was also a Canadian citizen (unconfirmed), she would have become a citizen before his father. Even if her first husband was not Canadian, according to Canadian law, she would still have automatically become a Canadian citizen in 1969 after having a Canadian spouse (Ted's Father) and residing in Canada for 1 year. This information substantiates the reports claiming that both of his parents appeared on the Canadian voter's rolls. There is now an unconfirmed claim that someone has supposedly verified that they indeed both voted in the October of 1972 federal Canadian election._
Not everything on the internet is true
I don't know if somehow this will slip through.