April 27, 2011: Newspaper Publishes INS Document Noting Obama Born in Honolulu

The Arizona Independent publishes a document obtained from the US Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services through a Freedom of Information Act request. The document offers further proof that President Obama was born in Hawaii. The document is a memo from August 31, 1961, some three weeks after Obama’s birth (see June 13, 2008 and April 27, 2011), written by William Wood of Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS). Wood’s memo says that Barack Obama Sr. was attending the University of Hawaii on a student visa and that a son, Barack Obama II, was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961. The memo refers to the elder Obama’s plans to continue at the University of Hawaii, and the plans of his spouse, Stanley Ann Dunham, to work at the university. The memo reads in part, “They have one child born Honolulu on 8/4/1961—Barack Obama II, child living with mother (she lives with her parents & subject resides at 1482 Alisteastre St.).” The document also shows that Obama Sr. entered the country in 1959, and had received several extensions to his visa. Obama Sr. left the country in 1964 after being denied another visa extension and remaning for a brief period illegally. [Arizona Independent, 4/27/2011; Arizona Independent, 4/27/2011]