The child either is a US citizen or he is not, he cannot lose it. You don’t apply, it’s imposed. What you seek to do is get it recognised and others have shown how you do that.Increasingly though, many are not outing their children to the IRS for the same reasons thousands are renouncing their citizenship, it becomes less possible to live a normal life overseas with US citizenship every time the law makers get together and think up another little wheeze to grab money from the end of a rainbow that has it’s end anywhere other than the USA, and who’s victims have little to no political voice in the USA.Of course, if you’re US citizens out in the world but still very much US citizens that will be back in the USA, that might not worry you much but if you are permanent residents of another nation who are yet to have their OMG moment when you realise you are in a ton of poop with the tax department of a nation where you don’t live, you might want to think twice before exposing your children to the same reporting, tax and penalty hell that you live under, even if you don’t know it - yet.They can put their hands up and admit to US citizenship any time they like, or not.“The US system of taxation and the US Government’s obsession with tracking “foreign” bank accounts has had a devastating impact on families, marriages, people’s jobs. Thousands have been forced to decide between their citizenship or staying with their families, undergoing financial ruin, limitations on the job markets, being able to retire or even more. Freedom of movement?”America’s bizarre relationship with citizenship – Gregory Swanson – Medium