Re: Who will be the Democrats' presidential candidate against Trump?

by danyjr Sat Mar 21, 2020 4:47 pm

I have lived my entire life not having known this. I am having a headache right now.

by rincon Sat Mar 21, 2020 4:49 pm

BarrileteCosmico wrote:
danyjr wrote:Guys I'm 99% sure I'm not an American citizen. I do have a certificate of birth but it doesn't say I'm an American citizen on it.
If you're born in the US you're an american citizen. End of. Congrats?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States

You can get a passport through your birth certificate, as long as it has the following:

Issued by the city, county, or state of birth
Lists your full name, date of birth, and place of birth
Lists your parent(s)' full names
Has the date filed with registrar's office (must be within one year of birth)
Has the registrar's signature
Has the seal of the issuing authority

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/outside-us.html

This sounds troublesome but I don't really know what it means. Did your parents go to this registrar dany?

I'm invested in this story now Molenation

by danyjr Sat Mar 21, 2020 5:31 pm

Off a phone call with my mom, yes my birth was registered. On the certificate of birth it says 5 days after I was born. My parents were a little shocked too, but BC's wiki page seems clear.

I always knew I could get a US citizenship because of my place of birth and vote etc but I am in quite a shocked state to know I'm automatically a citizen without having applied for it. I don't feel American at all.

by futbol_bill Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:12 pm

danyjr wrote:I have lived my entire life not having known this. I am having a headache right now.

Don’t get your hopes up! As long as Trump is in power he will do whatever to shut latinos out.

by elitedam Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:33 pm

This is amazing! Congrats, dany!

Can an admin please change his country to the US flag and his club supported to an MLS team?

by danyjr Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:42 pm

futbol_bill wrote:Don’t get your hopes up! As long as Trump is in power he will do whatever to shut latinos out.

I'm probably just as white as Unique tbh although on my birth certificate it says Spanish origin. Things you learn about yourself every day.

elitedam wrote:This is amazing! Congrats, dany!

Can an admin please change his country to the US flag and his club supported to an MLS team?

Thanks, I believe it when I see it.

Thanks to everyone who helped. Also sorry to hijack this thread.

by Myesyats Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:49 pm

So Trump has gained a new voter :bow:

by Hapless_Hans Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:53 pm

danyjr wrote:Guys I'm 99% sure I'm not an American citizen. I do have a certificate of birth but it doesn't say I'm an American citizen on it.

Were you born in the US?

Then you are an American citizen cheers

This is fantastic lmao

you need to assert this right now. Go talk to a lawyer on how to go about obtaining a passport

by danyjr Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:54 pm

Myesyats wrote:So Trump has gained a new voter

Precisely why I wanted to vote :coffee:

Also who are the American citizens on this forum? BC, McLewis, Blue?

by Hapless_Hans Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:56 pm

danyjr wrote:
Myesyats wrote:So Trump has gained a new voter
Precisely why I wanted to vote

Also who are the American citizens on this forum? BC, McLewis, Blue?

@CBarca @Young Kaz and surely a few more

by Hapless_Hans Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:00 pm

danyjr wrote:I have lived my entire life not having known this. I am having a headache right now.

Where were you during the Obama birth certicicate saga Laughing

rincon wrote:Incredible that danyjr is finding out he is an american citizen on the forum

GL

rincon wrote:

I'm invested in this story now

Me too

This is epic :bow:

danyjr wrote:
Thing is I also don't have an address in the US. I was born in Florida, does that mean I can vote for Florida?

Where do you live? Buenos Aires right? In the primaries, there's the category "Americans abroad" (Bernie won it :coffee:

) and I'm pretty certain that's also possible for the general election

Ususally, you would be able to vote in a American embassy/consulate

by danyjr Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:01 pm

The thing is, I'm not American in my ideologies and upbringing at all. Part of the reason I didn't really care about this whole citizenship is cause my family had stayed away from it.

If anything my parents are very anti-US policy. They were both members of the socialist party at university in Argentina and stopped going to US 15 years ago altogether, with their green cards expired because of that. It was a costly endeavour anyway as they had to fly to US every year to renew it.

by danyjr Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:04 pm

Hapless_Hans wrote:Where do you live? Buenos Aires right? In the primaries, there's the category "Americans abroad" (Bernie won it ) and I'm pretty certain that's also possible for the general election

Ususally, you would be able to vote in a American embassy/consulate

I've actually never lived in Argentina, although we go there pretty much every Christmas and some summers but I tend to avoid summers as it gets cold and that's the last place you want to go to if you live in Europe.

by Unique Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:11 pm

its 2020 im not sure if becoming a US or british citizen is as great as you might think. no one likes the brits and the yanks these days Laughing

by Hapless_Hans Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:13 pm

nvm I'm probably not a good counceller as to US voting mechanics

by Hapless_Hans Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:14 pm

danyjr wrote:
Hapless_Hans wrote:Where do you live? Buenos Aires right? In the primaries, there's the category "Americans abroad" (Bernie won it ) and I'm pretty certain that's also possible for the general election

Ususally, you would be able to vote in a American embassy/consulate
I've actually never lived in Argentina, although we go there pretty much every Christmas and some summers but I tend to avoid summers as it gets cold and that's the last place you want to go to if you live in Europe.

I see. Do you live in Spain then?

by futbol_bill Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:50 pm

Unique wrote:its 2020 im not sure if becoming a US or british citizen is as great as you might think. no one likes the brits and the yanks these days

Finally you said something I can agree with!

by Unique Sat Mar 21, 2020 10:05 pm

futbol_bill wrote:
Unique wrote:its 2020 im not sure if becoming a US or british citizen is as great as you might think. no one likes the brits and the yanks these days

Finally you said something I can agree with!

by danyjr Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:17 pm

Hapless_Hans wrote:
danyjr wrote:
Hapless_Hans wrote:Where do you live? Buenos Aires right? In the primaries, there's the category "Americans abroad" (Bernie won it ) and I'm pretty certain that's also possible for the general election

Ususally, you would be able to vote in a American embassy/consulate
I've actually never lived in Argentina, although we go there pretty much every Christmas and some summers but I tend to avoid summers as it gets cold and that's the last place you want to go to if you live in Europe.
I see. Do you live in Spain then?

I study in the UK. I'll be going to Spain once I finish. Probably have to cause of Brexit anyway.

by BarrileteCosmico Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:50 pm

danyjr wrote:
Myesyats wrote:So Trump has gained a new voter
Precisely why I wanted to vote

Also who are the American citizens on this forum? BC, McLewis, Blue?

ffs I'm not American, 2nd GLer to make this mistake, I just live here

Cbarca, Young Kaz, Blue, McLewis, sportscy (maybe?)

by rincon Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:42 am

BarrileteCosmico wrote:
danyjr wrote:
Myesyats wrote:So Trump has gained a new voter
Precisely why I wanted to vote

Also who are the American citizens on this forum? BC, McLewis, Blue?

ffs I'm not American, 2nd GLer to make this mistake, I just live here

Cbarca, Young Kaz, Blue, McLewis, sportscy (maybe?)

FennecFox and danyjr too

by McLewis Sun Mar 22, 2020 1:07 am

Yeah Sports lives in NYC, I think.

Congrats, Danyjr. The last couple of pages have been a hell of a read. Enthralling stuff. Can't imagine connecting the citizenship dots on a football forum like that.

Oh and you're not alone in being born here, but being culturally more worldly. That's the experience of pretty much all people who come here from somewhere else. It's what makes us a melting pot. I love it personally.

by danyjr Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:11 pm

I think "more wordly" is an overestimate Laughing

Although I have studied the history of Americas extensively, I don't understand spring break, don't follow basketball, no idea how American football and baseball work. Never celebrated 4th of July, nor thanksgiving. Every time I've been to the States I've been a total foreigner. You know that guy that stands out like a sore thumb? That's me.

I don't feel American at all, even though I am, apparently.

Spoiler:

by danyjr Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:11 pm

BarrileteCosmico wrote:
danyjr wrote:
Myesyats wrote:So Trump has gained a new voter
Precisely why I wanted to vote

Also who are the American citizens on this forum? BC, McLewis, Blue?

ffs I'm not American, 2nd GLer to make this mistake, I just live here

Cbarca, Young Kaz, Blue, McLewis, sportscy (maybe?)

Dafuq. Always thought you were a yankster.

by Young Kaz Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:46 pm

danyjr wrote:

I don't feel American at all, even though I am, apparently.

Spoiler:

What does feeling American even mean?

You're talking about an identity that spans from the beaches of Hawaii, to the glaciers of Alaska.

If you've ever stood up to a bully; thats America.

If you've ever excelled at a thing; thats America.

If you've ever showed up to a party just as it was ending; thats America.

Congrats, you won the lottery at birth.

I sure hope you are a friend of liberty.

by BarrileteCosmico Sun Mar 22, 2020 1:27 pm

danyjr wrote:I think "more wordly" is an overestimate Although I have studied the history of Americas extensively, I don't understand spring break, don't follow basketball, no idea how American football and baseball work. Never celebrated 4th of July, nor thanksgiving. Every time I've been to the States I've been a total foreigner. You know that guy that stands out like a sore thumb? That's me.

I don't feel American at all, even though I am, apparently.

Spoiler:

lmao, have your socialist parents disowned you yet? how do they feel about raising an imperialist?

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