There is no single person who makes this decision; it's a bureaucratic process. Any person born on US soil is a citizen by default. Any person who is a legal resident alien can make an application to become a naturalized citizen, and if the application is approved and the person fulfills the requirements they are a citizen. People can become citizens if they are married or related to current citizens. In certain cases people are granted citizenship for humanitarian reasons - usually if there's a credible threat to their lives if they return to their native land. There are restrictions placed on who can become a resident alien - quotas that prevent mass migrations from impoverished nations, screenings to weed out dangerous criminals, and the like - but aside from that the process is largely a matter of crossing T's and dotting I's.
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Anyone who is born or naturalized in the United States can become a citizen. And people from other countries can gain US citizenship.
A naturalized citizen can be a US Senator, although not the US President.
Since you were born. Only a native born American Citizen can be president.
He/she needs to be above thirty-five he/she needs to be born in the U.S.A. he/she must be a U.S.A. citizen
Yes, if they are an American citizen and at least 35, they meet the minimum requirements. And since Washington DC is a part of the US, they would be a citizen.</
Money would become unimportant and the value of our currency would plummet.