United States nationality law details the conditions in which a person holds United States nationality. In the United States, nationality is typically obtained through provisions in the U.S. Constitut
Physicist Albert Einstein receiving his Certificate of Naturalization from Judge Phillip Forman in 1940
A judge swears in a new citizen. New York, 1910
A State Department consular report of birth abroad, issued beginning 2011
Message in the passport of an American Samoan stating that the passport holder is a national, not citizen, of the U.S
United States citizenship can be acquired by birthright in two situations: by virtue of the person's birth within United States territory while under the jurisdiction thereof, or because at least one
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U.S. Senator from Michigan Jacob M. Howard, author of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution