Ibu guru, I guess the american embassy worker was on crack.?

Question

Maybe he was tring out a new policy of his own. when I went to the american embassy to get a visa for the U.S. i showed him my birth certificate, he told me that if i was born in the U.S. i didn't need a visa, that i could be sworn in again and get my american nationality back. i didn't even know i had lost my citizenship or nationality, or whatever. anyway i have an american passport and a mexican one as well.

Answer 1

No he was correct. Most of us knew the answer to your first question and it was reasonable. You were born here, you are a citizen, period. Why let one one racist said upset you?

Answer 2

Ibu Guru is a complete tool, he/she knows diddly squat - period.

Yak Rider is correct in his answer. If you are an American citizen by birth or a naturalized citizen of the U.S. and you obviously are the former due to your birth certificate then you will always remain a U.S. citizen, unless you renounce it.

There is no need to be sworn in and there is no need for a visa, you are still a U.S. citizen - your passport and birth certificate are proof of this.

Answer 3

Ibu guru's answers vary wildly with regard to accuracy.  To answer your question, if you were born in the US then you are a native American.  The only way to lose your American citizenship to to renounce it in the presence of a US consular officer while outside the United States.  The consular officer you dealt with was correct in his/her actions.

Answer 4

According to the US constituion, all persons born within its jurisdiction are natural born citizens of the US. This means that since you were born in the US, you are a natural born US citizen. Since you already have a US passport, you have strong evidence of your citizenship. I have no idea about what the embassy worker was saying, as since you are a US citizen, all you needed to do was to apply for a US passport to enter the US with ease (as opposed to your birth certificate which may have caused some problems as they aren't valid for travel anymore).