Are they really young kids? What happens if you just leave it up to them to apply for US citizenship later, if they want it (i.e., in case they want to live and work in the US).
They were US citizens the moment they were out of the womb. The consular birth record is an optional document to make things easier later; it doesn’t create citizenship any more than a passport does.
Another reason why it might be beneficial to renounce US citizenship long before my daughter would be buying property.
I simply don’t remember the details, but I must have filled in that form, if that was what they were using 13 and 11 years ago.
I just read the instructions for the form:
That was closer to what I vaguely remember. The purpose of the form isn’t to demand “every single day of my life” as you put it, and the instructions clearly shows both the intent of the form and also that a day-to-day accounting isn’t being asked.