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MaxineNO. YOU must be a natural born citizen, born to a citizen or legal resident of the US.
One parent must be a US citizen (born or naturalized) with no less than 5 years residency within the US, for you to be considered a natural born citizen, if born outside the US. Your actual place of birth does not matter.
All children born within the US to a US citizen, or legal alien, are US citizens, regardless of the parents' length of residency. Children born to illegal aliens or "temporary residents", (foreign government officials or vacationers), are not eligible.
Example: John McCain (born 1936), who ran for the Republican party nomination in 2000 and was the Republican nominee in 2008, was born at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone. Both his parents were US citizens which confers citizenship on him, by birth, as well.
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What is the citizenship requirement of the vice president?
The citizenship requirements for Vice President are the same as for President; he or she must be a citizen of the USA and a "natural-born" citizen. The Constitution doesn't actually define what that means but Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in the gaps left by the Constitution. Section 1401defines the following as people who are "citizens of the United States at birth:"Anyone born inside the United States *Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribeAny one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. nationalAny one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one yearAny one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.* There is an exception in the law - the person must be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. This would exempt the child of a diplomat, for example, from this provision.
Can both or one parent of the US president be of foreign nationality?
As stated in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution, the principal qualifications for one being a presidential candidate is being a natural born citizen of the United States, being at least 35 years old, and having been a permanent resident in the United States for at least 14 years. That being said, regardless of whether one or both parents are foreign born, as long as the candidate was born in the United States, and I assume U.S. territories, one is eligible to be a President of the United States of America.
Do you have to be an US citizen to be the president of the US?
Yes. A person cannot become President of the U.S. unless they are a natural born citizen (like President Obama, for example):Section 1 of Article Two of the US Constitution gives the eligibility requirements for serving as president of the United States:"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.The Congressional Research Service has stated that "the weight of scholarly legal and historical opinion indicates that the term [natural born citizen] means one who is entitled under the Constitution or laws of the United States to US citizenship 'at birth' or 'by birth' which includes any child born 'in' the United States, even to alien parents (other than to foreign diplomats serving their country), the children of United States citizens born abroad, and those born abroad of one citizen parent who has met U.S. residency requirements."
What is the Eligibility for the president?
To become a president, you have to... * Be a natural born citizen (born in the U.S.) or be born to at least one parent that is a citizen. * Be at least 35 years of age * Be a resident of the United States for at least 14 years. Point 1 is incorrect: "natural born citizen" means to owe allegiance to this country only. You do not have to be born in the US. The Rhodes case from the late 1800's spells this out for you. Depending on when you were born determines how many parents have to be citizens as well. In the case of Barack Obama he is not a natural born citizen, not because he was born in Kenya, but because his father was a Kenyan citizen and this gave Barack Obama dual citizenship, therefore giving him 2 allegiances he owes. He was a British subject at birth and he was diqualified right then.
Can a US Citizen run for President if heshe is a registered Citizen of a foreign country?
If you were born here, you are a citizen by right of birth. So, you are eligible to be president. 6 previous US Presidents had foreign born parents. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) is the only president born of two immigrants, both Irish. Presidents with one immigrant parent are Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809), whose mother was born in England, James Buchanan (1857-1861) and Chester Arthur (1881-1885), both of whom had Irish fathers, and Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) and Herbert Hoover (1929-1933), whose mothers were born respectively in England and Canada. Obama will be the 7th US President with at least one foreign born President, since his father was a Kenyan native. His mother was born in Kansas. On a side note, you do not have to be born in the US to be a "natural born citizen" which is one of the requirements to become president per the constitution. John McCain was born in the foreign nation of Panama. But, since his parents were US Citizens, he automatically became a citizen at birth. He was "naturally born" a US citizen and is thus eligible to hold the office of President. Also, recent arguments that due to Obama's father not being a naturalized citizen he is ineligible to serve are moot, as are even claims that he was born in other countries, i.e. Kenya, as a part of the Constitution states that even if one parent is an alien, as long as the other is a U.S. citizen that has lived for at least 5 years in the U.S.A., then regardless of where that person is born, they are considered a U.S. citizen until alternate citizenship status is obtained.
