Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Doesn’t work in most countries. Being stateless isn’t very fun.
Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Doesn’t work in most countries. Being stateless isn’t very fun.
Geodad@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
US citizenship comes from the mother, if born abroad. The baby would automatically be a US citizen, possibly have dual citizenship.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Most countries don’t have birthright citizenship.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
That is technically true, while missing a key fact. Birthright citizenship is the norm for countries in the Western Hemisphere. The vast majority of countries in the Americas have birthright citizenship. The USA is not some rare outlier here.
Chemo@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
I don’t think any european country has it…
Geodad@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
Yes, I’m just saying that the baby of a US woman would not be a stateless person if born in a country that doesn’t have it.
LyD@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
The mother or the father, and it depends on circumstances. The rules are more strict when the father is the US citizen.
Geodad@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
If the father is a citizen, the mother is not, and the baby is born outside the US, citizenship does not transfer from father to child.
If the status of the parents is reversed, citizenship does transfer to the child.
LyD@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Not to be rude, but where did you get that info? It isn’t correct. Doesn’t it sound a little too oversimplified for something like birthright citizenship laws in the US?