A study of citizenship of the United States at birth

The purpose of this study is to show the present state of the law of the United States relating to citizenship at birth. Its scope is such as to include a consideration of the citizenship status of the following classes of children: (1) those born (a) in the United States, (b) on American vessels, and (c) in American extraterritorial districts, of citizen, alien, or mixed citizen and alien parentage; and (2) those born abroad of a citizen father, or mother, or both. As to children born in the United States, the field will be confined geographically to continental United States, excluding the Territories, the Panama Canal Zone, and the outlying possessions. Birth in these latter political subdivisions raises questions of national status sufficiently intricate to justify a separate study.