deziloooooo
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Post by deziloooooo on Mar 24, 2011 17:47:55 GMT -5
A Change of pace...Man 95 , served in WW2 US Navy, finds out , he's not a citizen, been here all his life, was born to American Citizens in Canada, yet because parents didn't register him...well hope fully his congressman helps out here, wants it taken care of before he dies. -------------------------------------- ---WWII vet discovers he’s not a U.S. citizen By Liz Goodwin ..By Liz Goodwin – Thu Mar 24, 10:39 am ET "Ninety-five-year-old Leeland Davidson discovered recently that he's not considered a U.S. citizen, despite living nearly 100 years in the country and serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII. Davidson, from Centralia, Washington, told KOMO News that he discovered he wasn't a U.S. citizen when he was turned down for an enhanced driver's license he needed for a trip to Canada to visit relatives. We always figured because he was born to U.S. parents he's automatically a U.S. citizen," said Davidson's daughter, Rose Schoolcroft. --------------------------------------------- [Click on link to read article] ------------------------ news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110324/us_yblog_thelookout/wwii-vet-discovers-hes-not-a-u-s-citizen
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Post by Value Buy on Mar 24, 2011 18:47:45 GMT -5
I learned something today. Born outside the USA, you have to be registered to be a citizen. Here, I would have thought a birth certificate stating the citizenry of the parents would have sufficed. I assume a Canadian birth certificate would state the country of origin of the birth parents, but you know what they say about assumptions......
So, is he in truth, a Canadian citizen? Strictly a technicality.
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Post by Value Buy on Mar 24, 2011 20:57:11 GMT -5
But he was fine to catch bullets for Uncle Sugar. We are all well aware you do not have to be a citizen to serve in the military.
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Post by handyman2 on Mar 24, 2011 21:48:23 GMT -5
This I would think would be easy to quickly resolve. In fact a lot of young men who served in the military during WW-2 did not have a birth certificate at all originally. many born in rural and the Appalacian regions were delivered by mid-wives or family members at home and a birth certificate was never recorded. They had to go to the county seat and a local judge approved the registrar to make out a record of birth and file it. My dad was one of those.
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Post by deziloooooo on Mar 25, 2011 8:39:31 GMT -5
What gets me is how, when a problem arises , and I am not blaming them,
"Employees at the local passport office scared them, telling her father "If he pursued it, (he could) possibly be deported or [be] at risk of losing Social Security."
they have their little department , bureaucracy, rules to follow, and if he went out of the country some how to visit his relatives, he might never be able to get back, that there isn't a department, a source that can easily be brought in to cut through the red tape and take care of things like this.
Possible there is, his, in this case, congressman or even Senator, but that takes time to contact, investigate to make sure it's with in the congressman's interests, then finding out by the congressional office which department, who to contact\ and then stay on the case to see it is not put int some bin and forgotten.
"This I would think would be easy to quickly resolve." You would think so , but I bet in this case , even with the publicity, it might take longer then you think.
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Post by Bluerobin on Mar 25, 2011 8:44:22 GMT -5
Actually, he is a citizen, just not a registered one. He met the requirements of birth, just didn't get the paperwork.
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Post by deziloooooo on Mar 25, 2011 11:31:14 GMT -5
Actually, he is a citizen, just not a registered one. He met the requirements of birth, just didn't get the paperwork. Has to prove it , or have his actual lack of proof over looked, possible have to get one of those acts of congress passed that they do for these types of things, don't think just a agency decision would be enough, for example, Immigraion Department on their own just saying ok your a citizen.
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Post by Shirina on Mar 26, 2011 4:23:24 GMT -5
I think it's a non-issue in the sense that there is really no danger of him being deported or denied citizenship. The bad press alone for touching a hair on his head would be a major deterrent. In addition, it wasn't as if the man was trying to pull something over on anyone. It was a mistake, and a lame bureaucratic one at that.
Considering there are already programs where illegal aliens can earn their citizenship by serving in the military, I think this man earned his citizenship and then some with his own service. It should be as simple as a few pen strokes to get this man squared away. Let's hope common sense prevails here.
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