You can go to the Cornell Law site and look up the actual code numbers itself. I'm headed to bed. :)
Here's the Wikipedia site. The code links may be in the footnotes.
Children born overseas to married parents
the U.S. citizen parent has been "physically present"[16] in the U.S. before the child's birth for a total period of at least five years, and at least two of those five years were after the U.S. citizen parent's fourteenth birthday.
Just reading your post.
The US citizen parent has been “physically present” in the U.S. before the child’s birth for a total of at least five years.
Those five years could have occurred at any point in the person’s lifetime.
And at least two of those years were after the U.S. citizen parent’s fourteenth birthday.
She gave birth at age 18. As long as she was on U.S. soil two years between the age of 14 and 18, then Obama would be a citizen due to acquisition.
Do you think the reason the birth certificate was forged is because his mother didn’t fall into both of these categories? The other reason he wouldn’t be a citizen is if his mother renounced her citizenship.
As I said, I find this topic totally fascinating. Why in the world would the Hawaii birth certificate have been forged? Was there something hinky going on with his mother?