Could he be considered a duel citizen of Panama? Just wondering.
I believe so. I worked with a woman whose daughter was born in Panama, on base and she had dual citizenship. A more interesting case was my brother in law, in the AF, who was stationed in Japan for 2 years. That’s where he was born, on base. He actually had to go through the red tape to ensure that he was considered an American, because if Japan had started a draft while he was there he technically could have had to sign up. I’m sure they wouldn’t have, but the legal possibility existed.
No, he was born on a U.S. military base located in (at the time) a U.S. territory and both of his parents were natural born U.S. citizens.
According to the Act of March 26, 1790, 1 Stat. 103, “the children of citizens of the United States, that may be borne beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural-born citizens of the United States.”
Congress later stipulated that individuals born in the Canal Zone after February 1904 were automatically U.S. citizens.