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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (358522)	4/9/2010 7:36:59 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793897

Regardless of where Obama was born, if his mother was a US citizen at the time who had lived in the US for 5 years after the age of 17, he's entitled to US citizenship. Obama's mother was only 18 when he was born. Well, that's interesting. In getting a passport for my son there was a requirement for the US citizen parent (me) to have spent 5 years in the US after the age of something (maybe it was only 14, not exactly sure). If I hadn't spent 5 years in the US after the age of XX, there is still a way for the child to get citizenship, but I'm not sure what it is (since we didn't have to do it). It was funny because there was an Arabic looking person ahead of me in line at the embassy doing the same thing as me (proving that he had spent 5 years after the age of XX in the US). However, he claimed to live in Boston, but couldn't name the freeways or the sports teams. I thought I can pass this quiz easily. So when it was my turn to prove I lived in California until age 23 (when I moved to Japan) the embassy staffer asked me "Who are the Lords of Dogtown?" I'd never heard of them. I thought "Uh, oh, I'm going to fail the quiz!" So I started naming freeways and sports teams, and he let me by. I guess the Lords of Dogtown are in some skateboard movie the staffer likes.