WWII vet discovers he?s not a U.S. citizen

[Rochard]

Ninety-five year old man who served with the US Navy during WWII discovered he was not a US citizen the other day....

Ninety-five-year-old Leeland Davidson discovered recently that he's not considered a U.S. citizen, despite living nearly 100 years in the country and serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII.

Davidson, from Centralia, Washington, told KOMO News that he discovered he wasn't a U.S. citizen when he was turned down for an enhanced driver's license he needed for a trip to Canada to visit relatives.

"We always figured because he was born to U.S. parents he's automatically a U.S. citizen," said Davidson's daughter, Rose Schoolcraft.

Davidson was born in British Columbia in 1916, but his parents didn't register the birth with the U.S. government to ensure they knew he was a citizen. He checked up on his citizenship before joining the Navy and was told by an inspector at the U.S. Department of Labor Immigration and Naturalization Service he had nothing to worry about. Now he worries that he won't be able to prove his citizenship, because his parents were born in Iowa before local governments started keeping records of birth certificates in 1880. "I want it squared away before I pass away," he says.

Schoolcraft says they tried to dissuade him from pursuing the matter. Employees at the local passport office scared them, telling her father "If he pursued it, (he could) possibly be deported or [be] at risk of losing Social Security."

"We keep telling him, leave it alone, leave it alone, and he won't, like a dog with a bone," Schoolcraft told the Centralia Chronicle. But Davidson says: "I want to get it done before I die." He also still wants to visit his friends and family in Canada. Sen Patty Murray's office is helping him with his application.

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[DEA - banned for life]

send his old wrinkled ass back to canada where he belongs...you start bending the rules for one you got to bend them for all...hes an illegal and should be treated as one

[~Ray]

he's a vet so they missed it too.

Hope they give him his papers and a flag

~Ray

[pornguy]

By the laws he his parents had until he was 18 I believe. Other than that he has to apply as in immigrant.

[PR_Glen]

is that really too much to ask to give him his citizenship for a country he lived in for that long? Kind of illustrates how meaningless such a thing is doesn't it?

[Chris]

hmm
i know someone with that last name that lives in that area of washington - wonder if they are related.

[cykoe6]

Anyone who is a vet should be granted citizenship....... particularly this old timer.

[DEA - banned for life]

Originally Posted by PR_Glen

is that really too much to ask to give him his citizenship for a country he lived in for that long? Kind of illustrates how meaningless such a thing is doesn't it?

my post was mainly sarcastic..give the old vet his papers and let him die in peace

that being said..just because you may live in a country for a long time doesnt mean you should be considered a citizen.

people have been corssing the borders into the USA for decades...granting them all citizenships because they been here since the hopped the fence seems a little backass if you ask me.


"if you are an iligal alien who has been in the USA for over 25 years please visit the nearest immigration office and pick up your citizen papers !"

cmon really?

[PornoMonster]

Originally Posted by cykoe6

Anyone who is a vet should be granted citizenship....... particularly this old timer.

yep, least they should do!

[Vendzilla]

Born to US citizens, should be automatic, I mean hell, illegal aliens get in a US hospital and their kid is automatic, fucking nuts!

[CaptainWolfy]

how the hell did he go trough life without citizenship, don't you need prove when you are getting drivers license or something!?

[_Richard_]

retarded, he was probably born a stones throw away from the border

[k0nr4d]

deport the geezer!