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To: Taro who wrote (578080)	7/27/2010 4:51:09 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572542

Re: OK, this seems pretty much just like the German law: If you are born into the possibility of 2 citizenships,... It can be misleading to categorize countries as "jus sanguini" just because there's a NO in a check-box file... Come to think of it, Belgium actually enjoys a nationality law even laxer than the strict jus soli: as a foreigner, you don't have to be born in Belgium to become Belgian. A Moroccan, Muslim friend of mine was born in Tanger (Morocco) in the late 1970s... Then, in 1980 or 1981, he migrated to Belgium with his parents and elder brother (all Moroccan). Upon reaching his 18th birthday, he was eligible to Belgian nationality (which doesn't deprive him of his Moroccan citizenship). Since it was just a matter of filling a little paperwork, he chose to become Belgian. And ever since the late 1990s, he can vote and be elected to Belgium's highest political offices --including the Prime Ministership. Belgium being a hereditary monarchy, only members of the royal family can claim the head of state job... If the US enjoyed naturalization laws as lax as Belgium's, the 2008 presidential election might have been quite different: the GOP would likely have picked Arnold Schwarzenegger as its best candidate for the White House (regardless of his being born in Austria). It'd surely have been a whole 'nother ballgame, wouldn't it? Obama, the skinny, chain-smoking, junior senator from Illinois vs Schwarzenegger, the former Hollywood star, the virile, sporty governor of California... instead of gramps McCain. Gus