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Originally Posted by SSJup81

But her son wasn't born in America. He was born in Japan. He's automatically a Japanese citizen by default because of that alone. Since she plans on residing in Japan, along with her husband, and remaining there, with her husband, why go through the trouble of getting her already Japanese citizen of a son an American citizenship? If anything, she'd be better off getting her son a passport so they could visit the states. What good would getting an American citizenship do her son, if he lives in Japan, speaks Japanese, is being raised in Japan, etc.?

i am sry to have to continue this, but no my friend u said exactly the above, and especially this:

Originally Posted by SSJup81

.....He was born in Japan. He's automatically a Japanese citizen by default because of that alone......

more technically u get japanese citizenship by being born by a japanese mother and/or by a japanese father who is married to the foreign mother or if not married to the foreign mother who at the time of birth or within a certain time period after the birth recognises the fatherhood.

there is an excellent case on a philippine (i am not certain about the nationality perhaps someone else knows for certain) mother giving birth to a girl in japan where the father was japanese but where no recognition of this was done done within a certain period of time and therefore the girl as not given japanese citizenship. do i remember it correctly that they were even given deportation orders by a lower court too?