711.554/2: Telegram

The Ambassador in Belgium (Gibson) to the Secretary of State

7. Department’s instruction No. 167, December 1, 1928.2 Foreign Office asks for information as soon as possible whether American laws contain any provision which would permit children born in the United States of a Belgian father, even if they continue to reside permanently in the United States, to renounce American nationality on arriving at a certain age and to retain only the nationality of the father.

It seems to me that by virtue of section 2 of the act [of] March 2, 1907,3 an oath of allegiance to the Belgian Government would be sufficient to divest the child of American citizenship.

Please instruct.

Gibson
  1. Ibid., p. 497.
  2. 34 Stat. 1228.