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President Obama’s father revealed plans to put him up for adoption in 1961, according to Sally Jacobs, the Boston Globe reporter whose biography on the elder Obama is due out next week. Jacobs wrote in the Globe on Thursday that the possibility was detailed as Obama’s father ran into trouble with immigration officials who thought he might have more than one wife. “Subject got his USC wife ‘Hapai’ [Hawaiian for pregnant] and although they were married they do not live together and Miss Dunham is making arrangements with the Salvation Army to give the baby away,” read a memo written...

I have created a summary (posted below) of Barack Obama Senior's immigration files, which were recently released. The summary is tabular, hopefully allowing a more systematic analysis. I have highlighted in yellow the more interesting portions. This summary is useful as an introductory research tool or a concise summation for semi-interested readers. Details are excluded except where particularly interesting or unobvious. When posting comments about a particular document, please include the page # (first column of table). I welcome questions, too.

The long form birth certificate says obama sr. is 25. His alien registration card at the external link (& shown below) gives his date of birth as 6-18-34. If true, he would have been 27 not 25 when obama jr. was born. Wikipedia lists 1936 as obama sr.'s birth year. If obama sr. falsified his alien registration card, he might have been an illegal alien when obama jr. was conceived and born. On the other hand, the birth certificate might be inaccurate. In any case, one of the two documents contains false information.

I personally knew Obama Sr during his days as a middle level economist in Kenyatta’s Government. Always smartly dressed, Barrack Sr. was the embodiment of success. He came from a poor family near Lake Victoria. Africa’s largest water mass, went to a tin-roofed school with no running water, but still managed to reach the pinnacle of intellectual life at Harvard University in the US, where he received his advanced degree. At the university of Miami at Minoa, he was the first African student to be enrolled there for undergraduate studies, and therefore, became the centre of attraction. Tall and...

The Central Jakarta administration will move the controversial "Little Barry" statue from its current location at Taman Menteng in Central Jakarta to state elementary school SDN 01 Menteng next week, an official says. "We are currently discussing with officials from the school and its alumni association," city spokesman Cucu Ahmad Kurnia told reporters Friday. "We hope the move will happen next week." US President Barack Obama attended the elementary school for almost two years when he spent part of his childhood in Jakarta. Erected by the Jakarta-based Friends of Obama Foundation in December last year, the statue, which resembles Obama...

TEL AVIV – President Barack Obama's father was abusive and hit at least one of his American wives, Obama's half-brother disclosed at a press conference in China today. The relationship that Barack Obama Sr. had with his third wife might shed some light into the mysterious relationship between Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, and Barack Obama Sr. It also may provide some background into why Dunham sought a divorce from Obama Sr., although there is actually no record of their marriage. Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo – who had the same, late, father as the U.S. president – spoke to reporters as...