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Akron Law Review Volume 57 Issue 1 Article 2 2025 Citizenship, Federalism, and Delayed Birth Registration in the United States Betsy L. Fisher Follow this and additional works at: https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/akronlawreview Part of the Fourteenth Amendment Commons Please take a moment to share how this work helps you through this survey. Your feedback will be important as we plan further development of our repository. Recommended Citation Fisher, Betsy L. (2025) "Citizenship, Federalism, and Delayed Birth Registration in the United States," Akron Law Review: Vol. 57: Iss. 1, Article 2. Available at: https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/akronlawreview/vol57/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Akron Law Journals at IdeaExchange@UAkron, the institutional repository of The University of Akron in Akron, Ohio, USA. It has been accepted for inclusion in Akron Law Review by an authorized administrator of IdeaExchange@UAkron. For more information, please contact mjon@uakron.edu, uapress@uakron.edu.

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Citizenship, Federalism, and Delayed Birth Registration in the United States

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Author: Betsy L. Fisher

Journal / Publisher: Akron Law Review

Volume / issue: 57(a)

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Description: Some births in the United States—though it is unknown how many—go unregistered. Without documentation proving the facts of their births, people without birth registration are often unable to prove their identity or entitlement to citizenship later in life and are excluded from access to other forms of documentation, employment, and government benefits. State law allows adults to register their births through delayed birth registration processes, which vary significantly across jurisdictions. As a result, birth registration processes present a novel model of federalism: state law impacts whether individuals can document the facts of their birth, and recognition of a person’s U.S. citizenship requires the concurrence of both state and federal governments. Birth registration processes also demonstrate that statelessness in the United States can include those entitled to citizenship because of birth in the United States but whose claims the U.S. government does not recognize for lack of documentation of the facts of birth.

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Academia : Individual Scholarship

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Americas

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United States of America

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UN Human Rights system

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Other population/community

Date published: Jan 1, 2025

Source URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4752722

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