a native born citizen

It's the place you were born. If you were born in USA you are a native American citizen. ---- You don't become a native citizen. Either you are or you aren't, as noted above. To become a naturalized citizen is another story.

A native born citizen is a person who was born a citizen of a certain country by virtue of the laws of that country . For example, I am a native born citizen of the United States because I was born a United States Citizen. This term shouldn't be confused with natural born citizen, which a legal term unique to the United States Constitution.

Addendum: In the U.S., native born is a subset of natural born. All native borns are natural born but not all all natural borns are native born. Anyone born in the U.S. (save for children born to foreign diplomats or to foreign armed service members) are native born, and consequently natural born.

As native born requires being born within the country, in this case the U.S., a child born to citizen parents abroad is still natural born, but not native born.

A native born citizen is a person who was born a citizen of a certain country by virtue of the laws of that country . For example, I am a native born citizen of the United States because I was born a United States Citizen. This term shouldn't be confused with natural born citizen, which a legal term unique to the United States Constitution.

Addendum: In the U.S., native born is a subset of natural born. All native borns are natural born but not all all natural borns are native born. Anyone born in the U.S. (save for children born to foreign diplomats or to foreign armed service members) are native born, and consequently natural born.

As native born requires being born within the country, in this case the U.S., a child born to citizen parents abroad is still natural born, but not native born.

Any person who is born in US territory is considered as a native born citizen,(Children born of diplomats in foreign embassies within the US are not natural born US citizens because foreign embassies are considered to belong to nation that owns the embassy. )

There is a question about whether children born of US citizens outside of the US are natural born . This phase appears in the US Constitution as one of the requirement of the president, but the Supreme court has never ruled on its exact meaning.