Sentences with phrase «abroad in wedlock»

The law for acquisition of US citizenship at birth for children born abroad in wedlock to one US citizen parent (Cruz's mother) and one alien parent (Cruz's father), in effect from 1952 to 1986 (Cruz was born in 1970), says that the child is a US citizen at birth if the US citizen parent was physically present in the US, before the child's birth, for at least 10 years, including 5 years after turning 14.