If a pregnant woman "accidentally" has a baby in a foreign country while she is travelling, is it a citizen?

Question

by accidentally I mean prematurely, or something unplanned. Where the baby was supposed to be born in a home country. Is the child a citizen?

Answer 1

It depends on the country. The US and Canada have birthright citizenship. No Western European country has it. Ireland was the last to get rid of it, which they did fairly recently.

Answer 2

Different countries have different laws governing that situation.
Like if you are an american, whenever a baby was delivered in a foreign soil, the baby is still considered american no matter what. The parents needs to register the baby locally and follow it up with any embassy so the parents can bring home their baby back.
The other way around? If you are a foreigner in America and you accidentally deliver the baby prematurely, then the baby is considered an american. This rarely happens since any pregnant woman beyond 7 months is not advised to travel anywhere.
Hope this is helpful.

Answer 3

In the US this is a problem and a major fallacy of our Immigration Laws. If a child is born to a mother who is a German Citizen and the father is a German citizen, then I believe the child should be a German Citizen, regardless of the spot on the globe the mother was at when the little tyke breached the womb. But here in the good old USA, foreign nationals routinely enter just before giving birth so that their child will be a US Citizen, and we allow this to happen. Generally if a US child is born abroad, the parents have the child naturalized through the US consulate prior to returning to the USA>

Answer 4

The laws of countries vary considerably on who is a citizen. Some, like Germany, have laws which emphasis your ancestry. Being of German heritage makes you German not your place of birth. The last I heard these laws were being reformed so this might have changed by now.

In America, being born in the U.S. automatically makes you an American citizen. As the previous respondent points out this fact is used deliberately by illegal immigrants. Native birth however, is not the only way to be a native born citizen. If your parents are American citizens at the time of your birth you are considered a "native born" U.S. citizen even if you were born in a foreign country. John McCain, the senator and current presidential candidate, for example is considered a native born citizen. Even though he was born in the canal zone in Panama.

Answer 5

It depends on the laws in the country to which it is born. It will definitely be a citizen of the land to which it's parents are citizens and may hold dual citizenship in the country where he is born. Most countries, however, don't offer birthright citizenship to the offspring of non-citizens, so you will need to check with the specific country.

Answer 6

it deponds on which country th situaion happens....in usa yes but in most of the countries the citizenship will grant to that newborn when the mother of that child was in distenation country for the last 3 or 4 months before childbirth and controlled and visited by a particullar doctor

Answer 7

Probably depends what country you are visiting and their citizenship laws. By all mean you shouldn't be travelling anyway if your that many months pregnant.

Answer 8

I don't know the full answer but I can tell you that my grandfather was born in Cuba while my great grandparents were traveling there for some reason, and he did not get Cuban citizenship.

Answer 9

Oh yes Mexican pregant mothers cross the border to "crap" out a baby on american soil.And yes this entitles the mother and child and her ahcoholic felon boyfriend to live here too.Thats a law that needs changing.

Answer 10

It depends on what that country's birthright citizenship laws are.