english.chosun.com (South Korea)
A bill has been submitted to the U.S. Congress that would grant automatic U.S. citizenship to Korean children who have an American parent. According to Chun Jong-joon, an immigration lawyer, Representative Michael Michaud presented a bill that would give U.S. citizenship to interracial children from South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos if one of their parents is a U.S. citizen.
The current law gives legal residency, not citizenship, only to such children born before 1982 who have an American father. If the bill is passed, some 3,000 children from South Korea should benefit.
The current law gives legal residency, not citizenship, only to such children born before 1982 who have an American father. If the bill is passed, some 3,000 children from South Korea should benefit.
1 comment:
Since it only applies to "interracial" children, does this mean for example that the child of a US citizen of Korean descent and a Korean national would not qualify?
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