Comment by stingraycharles

3 days ago

Yup, getting Cartmanland marketing vibes here. “It’s the best theme park ever, and you can’t come!” does wonders for creating demand.

I wouldn’t the surprised if all this were actually orchestrated, it all seems too convenient.

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lwyrup  3 days ago

Doubtful. Fable 5 is insanely good it’ll sell itself. No need for unscrupulous advertising tactics.

What is a “foreign national” is more what I’m wondering. Like is it a “Non-US Citizen”? Do US citizens abroad count?

  • eks391  3 days ago

    Foreign national is anyone who doesn't have legally recognized citizenship of the USA. So citizens living abroad aren't barred, nor would dual citizens be.

  • simoncion  3 days ago

    > What is a “foreign national” is more what I’m wondering.

    The following quoted text is from the Definitions section of 8 USC § 1101, which is reproduced at [0]. (Though, you will probably have to scroll up a bit to be able to read subsection (a)(21), which is the thing I'm linking to.)

      (21) The term “national” means a person owing permanent allegiance to a state.
  (22) The term “national of the United States” means (A) a citizen of the United States, or (B) a person who, though not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States.
  (23) The term “naturalization” means the conferring of nationality of a state upon a person after birth, by any means whatsoever.

    From this, it's fairly clear that a "foreign national" is someone owing permanent allegiance to a foreign (that is, non-US) state. What's not immediately clear to me is whether a US citizen can also be a "foreign national", [1] and how that would affect access to things from which foreign nationals are barred. [2]

    EDIT: For a more official source of this information, you might be able to check out [3] and/or [4]. After examining and interacting with those pages, one might see why one might go to an unofficial source for casual inspection of this information.

    [0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1101#a_21

    [1] I think they can be.

    [2] I'm very uncertain.

    [3] <https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...>

    [4] <https://uscode.house.gov/browse/prelim@title8/chapter12/subc...>

    • bvierra01  3 days ago

      A "foreign national" is any person who is not a US Citizen:

      "The United States Department of State defines a “foreign national” as anyone who is not a “U.S. person.” A “U.S. person” is any one of the following: U.S. citizen; Lawful permanent resident (green card holder); and “Protected Person” i.e. political asylum holder." [0]

      A foreign national is a person or organization who is not a citizen of the United States, and who is a citizen of a foreign country. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) uses the term "alien" to refer to a person who is not a United States citizen, and does not use the term "foreign national."[1]

      [0] https://www.orc.msstate.edu/faq/what-department-states-defin...

      [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/foreign_national

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    • amanaplanacanal  3 days ago

      I owe allegiance to no state. I prefer to think of myself as a citizen of the world.

      It's kind of a weird definition. I would guess most people's nationality is more an accident of birth than anything else.