What determines a persons nationality?

Question

Is it the place of birth, a parents nationality, place of residence or what?

Answer 1

Nationality is a relationship between a person and their state of origin, culture, association, affiliation and/or loyalty. Nationality affords the state jurisdiction over the person, and affords the person the protection of the state.

Traditionally under international law and conflict of laws principles, it is the right of each state to determine who its nationals are. Today the law of nationality is increasingly coming under more international regulation by various conventions on statelessness, as well as some multilateral treaties such as the European Convention on Nationality.

Generally, nationality is established at birth by a child's place of birth (jus soli) and/or bloodline (jus sanguinis). Nationality may also be acquired later in life through naturalisation. Corporations and other legal persons also have a nationality, generally in the state under whose laws the legal person was formed.

The legal sense of nationality may often mean citizenship, although technical differences do exist between the two. Citizens have rights to participate in the political life of the state of which they are a citizen, such as by voting or standing for election. Nationals need not immediately have these rights; they may often acquire them in due time.

Answer 2

What Determines Nationality

Answer 3

Parents nationality in first instance.

If you have an Italian mother and a American father you can have both passports. At 18 you need to choose which Nationality you want.
Residency is different, you can be resident in a country for 50 years but until you have a passport from that contry yoo remain a citizen of parents country of birth.
It get more complicated with tax residency and non residecy.
If you leave your contry of residence for a long period you will lose some of the rights..........

Answer 4

Place of birth

Answer 5

The country to which you owe your loyalty is your nation. For most people, this means the country of your birth. For those in another country when they are born, it means the country of your parents' birth. It can also mean your adopted country.

One of the problems we face in Iraq is there is no national identity. If you ask a man what he is, he will probably say Sunni, Kurd, or Shia rather than Iraqi. Until they all begin to answer Iraqi without the other tags, there's not much hope that Iraq will ever become a true nation.

Answer 6

Officially the state but for the individual it is their own sense of identity that determines their nationality.
National statehood is a relatively recent concept Napoleon and all that. But the sense of belonging to a nation as an individual can argualbly be seen as something as ancient as a clan or tribe.
More recently, saying someone is so and so because they were born there is ludicrous, if their parents came from somewhere else the children do not have the time to assimilate the culture of their birth. They do have time for it to seep into their bones
This is especially so if they remain strictly adherent to their parental world view.
Nationality for me is just one of the various governments ways of splitting us up.

Answer 7

Place of birth, if the parents are resident in that country.

Answer 8

The parent nationality, is basic or rather primary but the place of birth comes secondarily when your talking about nationality. the place of residence is out of place or make it tetiarry

Answer 9

the place of birth or parents' nationality

Answer 10

It depends - place of birth has something to do with it, depending on the local laws. My son was born in the USA. This automatically entitled him to American Nationality. Because his father and I are English, he is English too, and has dual nationality with two birth certificates and two passports. However, I don't think that's the rule in all countries.