USA CITIZENSHIP TEST
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Question
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Mike was born in Canada and has been working in the U.S. the past 3 years
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Cecilia is seventeen and is going to high school in Los Angeles
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Josh was born in Spain to two U. S. citizens
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Julie moved to the United States when she was three years old. She moved back to Mexico when she was 12.
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Detailed explanation-1: -General Requirements for Acquisition of Citizenship at Birth. A person born in the United States who is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States is a U.S. citizen at birth, to include a child born to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Amendment XIV, Section 1, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution directs that all persons born in the United States are U.S. citizens. This is the case regardless of the tax or immigration status of a person’s parents.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 allows foreign-born, biological, and adopted children of U.S. citizens to acquire U.S. citizenship if they satisfy certain requirements before age 18. The Act applies to children who did not acquire U.S. citizenship at birth.
Detailed explanation-4: -You are a United States citizen if you were born anywhere in the United States or its territories, including Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. You are also a U.S. citizen if you were born in another country and then naturalized. 106 C.M.R. § 362.200 .