Having the passport or the CRBA doesn’t settle either of those issues. They are interchangeable, though, when documenting citizenship. The NBC question is a matter for the courts, and the CRBA/passport doesn’t address that it all. It just says you’re a US citizen.
They are interchangeable for citizenship, but a CRBA and a birth certificate tell us more than a passport does. In particular, a CRBA tells us that the source of citizenship is a statute, and that evidence has been presented and the claim to citizenship has been adjudicated in light of the statute. A passport doesn't tell us that.
” CRBA/passport doesn’t address that it all. It just says you’re a US citizen.”
True, but LET’S SEE THEM. Where are they? Sealed? WHY?
The court has already spoken if people would just read it. The Supreme Court ruling in Rogers v. Bellei 401 U.S. 815 (1971) clearly states that children of U.S. parents born on foreign soil must be naturalized. The Naturalization Act of 1790 which claimed children born overseas WERE natural born was struck down by the Act of 1795....no longer natural born. The Department of State read it and declare in their own publications that being born overseas is a derivative citizenship and only statute law grants ordinary citizenship to those children. Statutes do not natural born citizens make.
This whole issue is as clear as the nose on one’s face but politics dictate over the truth.