As I recall, an American women would lose their US citizenship prior to circa 1934, if they married a foreign man.
She could not have come a Kenya Citizen since Kenya - as a stand-alone nation did not exist in 1961. Kenya (which was a defined region) was part of British East Africa. In 1963 it became independent along with 2 other countries in the region. Thus terminating the geo-political entity of British East Africa.
Interesting point - The LFBC refers to ‘Kenya, East Africa’ for OBIs country. There never was such a thing as ‘Kenya, East Africa’. There was Republic of Kenya (after 1963) or prior to that and in the late 50s it was referred to as Kenya since it was defined as Great Britain laid out the path to independence. Many of OBI’s INS records refer to ‘Kenya’. But not ‘Kenya, East Africa’ or ‘Republic of Kenya’.
Here is a document with a very, very good write-up on the trail possible citizen for Obama II during that time.
See the end of the document for in-depth discussion on like citizenship path as Kenya become independent. Bottom line - Obama never ‘lost’ British Citizenship. He could - to this very day - claim British citizenship.
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/hannigan/Eligibility_Dialogue.pdf
It sure looks that way.
Entirely possible. The British protectorate of Kenya could have grandfathered(by law) her marriage to a Kenyan into her becoming a Kenyan citizen when Kenya became an independent nation.
I am not certain of that. That is up to British law, but as I understand it, SAD did not become an automatic British Citizen, but could have applied for it, requiring that she renounce her American Citizenship. We have no evidence that happened, and that is backed by her passport records. So I would have to that this is likely incorrect... but I cannot say for certain, it isn’t a subject I have researched personally.