Renouncing US citizenship or applying for a passport - help!

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Jul 30th 2017, 1:42 am

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carcajou

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Re: Renouncing US citizenship or applying for a passport - help!

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Originally Posted by S Folinsky

One point not discussed - nothing was discussed on how OP's mother was in Atlanta. There is a UK Consulate in Atlanta. Children of diplomats born in the US are NOT US citizens. They are born with green cards, but the normal abandonment rules apply.

OP states that he/she was born in North Carolina, not Atlanta, and stated that he/she would have to contact the records people in North Carolina for her US birth certificate. Unless I am missing something, the only reference to Atlanta was that the UK Consulate there has a birth certificate - that would likely be the consulate with authority over NC and makes sense the parents went there to register the birth.