"RHF" wrote in message
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Q # 1. First - Was her Mother also an American ?
- - - Usually -if- noth Parents are Native Born Americans
{Physically Born in the USA} - You Are An "America-by-Birth-Right".
Example - As Lee Harvey Oswald's life illustrates the US Government
generally 'views' Native-Born-Americans as Americans-for-Life.

Her mother is Ecuadorian. Under US law, she was a dual national at birth. By
Ecuadorian law, she was not a citizen of any country until age 18, when she
became Ecuadorian. Obviously, each country has different laws or rules.
That's what makes this interesting beyond the personal aspect.

Q # 2. Or - Was her Mother 'other-than' an American ?

Ecuadorian.

Q # 2a Is she now over the Age of 21 Years ?

Read the thread. She was born in the mid-60's.

IIRC -if- she 'never' exercised the Privilege-of-America-Citizenship
before or upon turning the Age of 21 years - - - She may have 'lost'
that "Privilege" {Option}.

Majority in ecuador is 18, not 21. And under local law in the naiton where
she lives, getting an Ecuadrian passport required an "acta" certifying she
renounced any other citizenship. Since she has not tried to live in the US
or become a citizen, I don't know what the outcome would be were she to try
to recover her US citizenship of birth.

the law is a complicated thing . . .
which naturally confuses me ~ RHF

It confuses all of us in this case, as the laws of two nations are not the
same.