General Discussion

They have it, but I know someone who tried it.

It took them several months to get the baby Mexican citizenship. (Dual US/Mexican citizenship) They also had to prove that the child "would not be a charge".....They also needed more documentation from the US. I think they needed parents and grandparents birth certificates or something like. Yes, their baby obtained Mexican citizenship despite the parents not being Mexican citizens, but it wouldn't have happened if they just "went home".

There was also the mandatory trip to the US consulate, but that one went fairly smooth. All they needed at the US consultate were the parents' documentation and passports. Baby obtained a US passport.

They wanted their child to have dual citizenship, but it wasn't all quite that easy.

This is different than the US, where the citizenship process is immediate. In the US, everyone gets a birth certificate, no questions asked.

Congress could write to laws to preserve it, but make the process a bit more tedious if they wanted to discourage it a little bit. For instance, if both parents are not citizens, they could require a follow up appointment like what happened with the person that I knew in Mexico.


If you look at any Mexican birth certificate, it will list the grandparents. It's amazing that my uncle was able to obtain one since he did not have documentation. (1925) However, I don't know if he was considered a Mexican citizen.

However, Trump trying to change the birth certificate process via EO is not the way to do this.