Alabama woman who joined Islamic State sues to return to US

[Eugene]

7. She had a then-valid U.S. passport when she left the U.S. in 2014.

From the AP article in the OP:

The State Department under the Obama Administration determined that she lacked birthright citizenship and retroactively revoked her passport in 2016.

And from The Hill article posted earlier in LBN:

The State Department asserts that Hoda Muthana was born the daughter of an accredited foreign diplomat, lack birthright citizenship and has never been a U.S. citizen. Her family disputes this saying the her father was not a diplomat when she was born and she was born subject to U.S. law. This is what the lawsuit is about.

From The Washington Post:

Pompeo issued a statement saying Muthana is not a U.S. citizen. Her father was a Yemeni diplomat, and children born to foreign diplomats in the United States are not granted birthright U.S. citizenship. But a family representative said Muthana’s father had stepped down from his diplomatic role before she was born and that she was indeed born a U.S. citizen and had a valid U.S. passport.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/21/how-countries-may-try-avoid-taking-back-isis-fighters-their-families/


Nobody is saying she renounced her citizenship. The dispute is whether she is a Yemeni or an American answerable for U.S. terrorism charges.