₦airaland Forum

is Roe vs Wade going to be another flashpoint or what's to happen now?

what was his stance on immigration, does anyone know?

nasiayam:
For myself the fundamental question is this , either said verses are fabrications/additions or it's true. Should the verses in question be fabrications/additions , as some scholars seem to believe, coupled with a footnote in the Bible under said verses saying not in earliest manuscripts, then we got a problem. What else has been corrupted and or embellished and or held back. If it's true, let's see how I fare after injesting stricnine.

your choice.

so only the IDP camps should produce kids this November?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg

seems "Accidental American" is on wiki already, first time I'm hearing the term:



Accidental American


An accidental American is a citizen of a country other than the United States who may also be considered a U.S. citizen under U.S. nationality law but is not aware of having U.S. status, or has only become aware of it recently during adulthood.[1] Accidental Americans' U.S. citizenship arises due to their parents' ties to the United States rather than their own choices: they may be born in their own country but to one U.S. citizen parent who emigrated from the United States, or they may be born in the U.S. to parents residing in the country temporarily for work or study and then return to their own country in their early childhood, with few if any memories of the United States. The term may also sometimes be applied to people who definitely are not U.S. citizens but have some other sort of connection with the country, for example green card holders who moved back to their country of origin and let their green cards expire without formally cancelling their U.S. immigration status, or non-U.S. citizens married to Americans abroad. Such tenuous connections to the United States began to become a more salient issue in the late 2000s due to Internal Revenue Service crackdowns which were ostensibly aimed at tax evaders hiding assets in secrecy jurisdictions but ended up having much broader effects on people with U.S. citizenship who resided in other countries, as well as their families.

Birth abroad and role of registration

U.S. law also states that a child born outside of the U.S to a U.S. citizen parent who previously spent sufficient time in the U.S. is a U.S. citizen at birth, regardless of whether the child also has the citizenship of the country of birth or another citizenship. U.S. citizens married to fellow U.S. citizens can transmit U.S. citizenship to their children if either parent has ever had a residence in the United States (without any minimum time limitation on how long they held that residence.) However, for U.S. citizens married to non-U.S. citizens, the required period of residence is longer; under the Nationality Act of 1940 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, the required period of residence was set to ten years, five of which had to be after the age of 14. The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1986 reduced this to five years, two of which had to be after the age of 14.

This makes it possible in some cases for "accidental American" status to be passed down over multiple generations, for example if an accidental American spends sufficient time in the U.S. to meet the physical presence requirements to pass down their U.S. citizenship to their own children born outside of the United States. This is most likely to occur in the case of unmarried parents. Under 8 U.S.C. § 1409(c), only one year of continuous physical presence in the United States is required for an unmarried mother to pass down citizenship to children born abroad. The Second Circuit and Ninth Circuit have split on the question of whether 1409(c)'s gender restriction violates the Equal Protection Clause; the Second Circuit, in holding that it does in 2015, ruled that the son of an unmarried U.S. citizen father who failed to meet stricter physical presence requirements of 1401 is also a U.S. citizen at birth.

Under a strict reading of U.S. nationality law, consular registration is not required in order for a child born outside of the U.S. to a qualifying parent to "become" a U.S. citizen; the child is a U.S. citizen from the moment of birth. However, for practical reasons, if a child's birth is not reported to a U.S. consulate or United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the child would not have any proof of U.S. citizenship and the U.S. government might remain unaware of the child's citizenship status. Retired U.S. State Department official Andrew Grossman wrote in 2007 that in cases of "doubtful nationality" in which a child's derivative U.S. citizenship remained undocumented and unreported to the U.S. government, the child was not regarded as a U.S. citizen either for tax or other purposes, and he expected that it would be quite difficult for tax authorities to make determinations of jus sanguinis citizenship on their own. Karen Christensen, also of the U.S. State Department (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Overseas Citizens Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs), stated that "it is the process of being documented as a U.S. citizen that would result in official government recognition of the child’s U.S. citizenship status". This ambiguity has resulted in American emigrant parents, particularly those married to people of other nationalities, choosing not to report the births of their children born in other countries to U.S. consulates, in the hopes that this would allow the children to escape notice by the U.S. government. Mark Matthews of Caplin & Drysdale stated, "When clients who have lived abroad for years come in, concerned about whether they have an obligation under FATCA, they sometimes react to the suggestion that their kids might be American the way one might react to a horrible medical diagnosis."

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

Accidental Americans'

Many foreign banks are taking no chances either. They are closing down accounts of anyone who might be an "accidental American". This could be anyone with an American parent but born outside the US, or people of other nationalities born in the US - like Fabien.

"I live in France, I work in France, my life is in France. I have no link to the United States. My life as a Frenchman is in France," Fabien tells me through an interpreter. "I don't even speak English!"
His bank demanded he either provide proof he had renounced his US citizenship, or his social security number. He had neither. Renouncing his "accidental" US citizenship is no mean feat, either.
"We have to enter into the American system at the risk of substantial penalties. I have to submit the last five years' tax returns, but then also the next two years in order to renounce," he says.

1. What is an "accidental American"?

2. What is the age of this person (if he's a real person)?

3. You dont become American (for official purposes such as the one stated in the example given) if born outside the US, if you dont officially register your presence and birth with the embassy or in some official capacity somewhere. You might be American through one or both parent/s , but you have to officially acknowledge this fact first.

4. Which other forms of id are acceptable by banks besides a passport?

well, I dont know how the supreme court situation will affect things.

we just have to wait and see.

WAVixen:
Fruits are expensive in Lagos.

that's possible although I doubt it?

maybe you shop in expensive areas?

WAVixen:
That was why I said fruits seem to be for the affulent because of the price, so your comment on it being a 'Lie' was uncalled for!

fruit is sold everywhere in naija, on the street, in markets, etc.

and yes, very affordable.

at least before, dont know about now.

overseas is where fruit is expensive.

WAVixen:
anyway it's good to have such an establishment in Nigeria where fruits are seen as been for the affulent.

not so.

fruits are commonly found in naija, or has that changed?

because their country is close to the US?

not really.

red and orange could induce appetite because pepper is red and also a synonym for spices.


orange could mean heat (cooking). Or harvest (food).

Sctests:
Do you all know that the husband can still be denied a visa to go see his babies by the US embassy here in Nigeria? He can be denied a visa without explanation just because the Visa officer is having menstrual cramp or simply doesn't like his face. lol. This is not a joke.

Is the mum resident in the US or did she go there just to deliver the babies?

Xhaka:
Technology, don't think there's an app like that

yes, its technology.

vanndubi:
Actual Ebonyi was created by merging Abakiliki zone of Old Enugu state and Afikpo zone of Old Abia state.

that means Afikpo was in Imo state at the time.

Do people still remember (or know) Abia used to be in Imo state?

2016, the year of the IDP.

Is "achievement" in Nigeria measured by being a Nollywood celebrity doing various photoshoots every day in varying stages of u.ndress?

for a woman, is that what is solely considered "achievement"?

not saying anything is wrong with being in the media, but why are folks not asking the same in celebrity section?

lonelydora:
Is she ths one that achieved or her husband? What did she achieve?

check her wiki page:

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

FisifunKododada:
NIGERIAN man? Wetin sef you expect for NYSC? GHANIAN man? TOGOLESE man? You are not serious.

perhaps the op is not Nigerian.

NovusHomo:
So, who achieved what? Toyin or Bukola?

so because her husband has achieved a lot in the political arena, that means she must also join him there and do exactly the same?

its you people who will still complain if she does so!

NovusHomo:
Toyin Saraki Visits Childhood School, tells students “you can achieve whatever you set your sights on.”




What is her achievement? being married to the Senate president?

did she just marry the senate president?

or wasn't she already married to him before he joined the senate.

AmmarOscar:
Bolded. Does she means they should try by hook and crook to marry governors and senate Presidents?

Toyin Saraki is from a rich and influential family and has grown kids [meaning she married before her husband became a governor and senate president].

Don't be fooled by her youthful look.

no plane crashes plz, I take God beg una.

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this is a very common drink in parts of the world like Asia, Hawaii, the Caribbean etc.

no biggie.

what's the synopsis?

you folks seem to be hyping it a lot.

but how does his anti-Buhari stance prevent Mr Omoboriowo his kinsman from remaining a close part of Buhari's inner circle?

just wondering.

abi na me dey Buhari inner circle ni?

Ogun state people no dey look poor.