"Steve" wrote in message
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On Feb 20, 12:01 am, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"Steve" wrote in message

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Again, a mistake by an industry association in a convention program is
hardly an issue

Their only mistake was taking you at your word.

Very funny. They simply misprinted my title in a program. When a
convention
has 10,000 attendees and about 300 different speakers and panelists, many
errors happen. Nobody int he industry gave it a second thought.

Really? You mean it didn't cause the sky to fall? lol

Hardly. Since most of the attendees already knew who the presnters were at
my session, I doubt most even noticed.

The "misprinted" your article, eh? Funny how lies can cause "typos",
isn't it?

I have no idea what the reference you make is... we are talking about a
program (also available on the web) for the NAB convention several years ago
which had my title truncated... there was no article.

It is perfectly straight. She was born a US citizen, under US law.

You're the one who said she wasn't a citizen.

Under US law, she may be... you can see from the interesting infromation
from Mr. Gallagher that the issue is not balck and white. She was registered
as a US citizen at birth, she chose not to ever get either a US passport or
to pursue the citizenship otherwise. So, 40-some years later, she is
Ecuadorian.

Under
Ecuadorian law, she was not a citizen until age 18 (many Latin American
nations do not consider people citizens until they reach the age of
majority... including Mexico, I believe). At age 18, she got an
Ecuadorian
passport, sufficient in ecuador to be considered ONLY an Ecuadorian
national. US law saw her as a dual national.

Yes, and as you yourself pointed out, have a right to citizenship and
exercising it are not the same.

Correct. As Mr Gallagher has pointed out, while another goverment may not
consider her a dual national, in many cases the US government does.

"David Eduardo: ...She has never been a US citizen. "

Correct. She had a right to citizenship, but lived in Ecuador where she
did
not exercise it. She swore citizenship to Ecuador at age 18; one country
considers here only a national, and the other considers her a dual
national. In other words, there are two answers to this question,
depending
on whose laws you folow.

There are multiple answers to the question all right...depending on
what you confabulate on any given occasion.

No, actually there are different answers if you are a representative of the
US government or the Ecuadorian one... without even going into what the
individual considers themselves to be.