what does Nationality mean?

Question

i am from sri lanka, living in the uk for the past 20 years.

Answer 1

It means what country you come from. Im Scottish and proud

Answer 2

Nationality Meaning

Answer 3

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what does Nationality mean?

Answer 4

I'm an American and I live in England. I've taken on a British accent and the Britiah way of life. I have been here for 40 years and if I think about it I guess my emotional nationaliy would be with England.

Answer 5

see nationality means . a person whose birth country is call nationality
he or she is the citizen for that country

Answer 6

It used to mean, Country of birth, in the days when life was simple and based on common sense.

Answer 7

Nationality has a number of meanings. Legally it is usually -- but not always -- the same as "citizenship".

But there are exceptions: in Britain and the USA "citizenship" and "nationality" and "allegiance" have all been u sed at one time or another to designate distinct obligations and relationships between the individual and the State. In addition, in Anglo-American law, "domicile", residence, ordinary residence and habitual residence determine things that, in civil-law countries, nationality controls. (Civil law countries have domicile and habitual residence, and tax residence; and Spain has "vecindad civil" and Switzerland has "commune of origin" -- the latter two being a sort of citizenship of a locality the same way Americans may be "citizens of a State", meaning they are domiciled in a particular state or territory, and subject to its family law, inheritance law, etc.

Sri Lanka is, like South Africa and Belize, in part a Roman-Dutch law country, which adds a layer of complexity.

Muslim countries, to the degree they apply Islamic law, consider that they are the proxy for the Ummah because under Islam sovereignty belongs to Allah alone, and there is no notion of civil sovereignty or nationality.

Then there is "European citizenship" which is constituted by the nationality of a member state and is not a nationality by itself, but which grants nationality-like rights (to live and work in another EU, EEA or Swiss country).

Another exception: under American law there are some 57,000 people who are "non-citizen nationals" because they were born (and have parents who were born) in American Samoa or Swains Island. And Native American and First Canadians, subject to Indian law, have the benefit of the Jay Treaty (1794) which gives them reciprocal rights to live and work in the other country.

The basic right of nationality is to live and work and be part of the political process of the country of your nationality; and to transmit that nationality to one's offspring. Since 1999 (San Marino was the last) all European countries grant her nationality to the offpsring of a woman, married or not. A few Arab countries do not allow a mother to transmit her nationality, and the child of an unmarried Egyptian woman and a foreign father, I am told, may be stateless.

In international law and human rights law one is said to have the right to change one's nationality, but there are several countries that do not allow their citizens to renounce nationality. Greece and Iran come to mind.

Answer 8

In this country it used to mean something. But no longer. Because of the PC, tree-hugging farts and the useless governments who do not care about the people anymore!

Answer 9

The country where you originate. If you're from Germany, then you're German; if you're from Poland, then youre Polish, etc.

Answer 10

the country in which you were born