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I am 1st generation because: I was born in Germany in a non-US facility, and lived with my single mother and her family for 3 years before coming to the US; and, I had to be recognized as an American by both after a odious legal proceeding 4 years after my birth and 1 year after my mother brought me to the United States as a single mother. Probably like you German was my 1st language -- and it wasn't until I had been in a DODDS school in Japan that English became my primary young. Like you I learned several languages and traveled the world; had my citizenship questioned on several occasions, and even had the government spend more than 2 years getting a security clearance because of the 'dual nature' of my birth.