Our "Natural Born Citizen"

We have fielded many questions (or rather the same question, many times) regarding Maeve's citizenship being born abroad.

So to set the record straight:

Stolen from the internet: "Currency-collector. Interestingly, only 30 out of 196 countries grant citizenship upon birth. Jus Soli is Latin for 'right of the soil'. The countries from North America, entire South America except for Columbia, Lesotho, Pakistan, Tanzania and Tuvalu are the 30 countries that grant Unrestricted Jus Soli."

So Maeve will have to settle for being a plain old American. This was achieved by completing endless paperwork and visiting the consulate in Amsterdam. The most tedious form required us to list all of the trips we had ever taken out of the US with dates. That was not fun to complete! The visit to the consulate was smooth. I had seen that it could take around 3 weeks to get an appointment so as soon as we brought Maeve home from the hospital, I was on it making the appointment. We followed the consulate instructions and did not bring our cell phones or cameras so we have no documentation of what took place. We turned in our paperwork, paid the fees and brought Maeve to the counter where we had to raise our hands and swear that she has the right to US citizenship. Within a week, her passport was mailed to our home along with a very snazzy looking "Consular Report of Birth Abroad" certificate that we are under strict orders not to lose. So we have proof that she is a "natural born citizen" and could run for Presidency one day. Although she'll have to have lived in the US for at least 14 years by the time she is 35. We are pretty confident that will happen... 

Who would deny this face?!