{"id":2819,"date":"2024-02-21T17:40:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2024-12-08T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T20:18:00","slug":"countries-that-grant-citizenship-based-on-being-born-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/02\/21\/countries-that-grant-citizenship-based-on-being-born-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Countries that grant citizenship based on being born there"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>64 countries, including the U.S., grant citizenship to babies born in the country, depending on parents&#8217; status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A general rule: if born in the Americas, you can claim &#8220;right of soil&#8221; citizenship in the birth country, regardless of parents&#8217; status. If born in Europe or Africa, you only get citizenship if one or more of your parents is a citizen or permanent resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A complete list: <a href=\"https:\/\/immigrantinvest.com\/blog\/birth-citizenship-blitz-en\/\">Citizenship by Birthright: \u201cRight of Blood\u201d and \u201cRight of Soil\u201d if the Child is Born in a Foreign Country (immigrantinvest.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am guessing a new trend will be expectant mothers who travel to other countries to give birth &#8211; so their child can get dual citizenship. Russian women have been doing this: <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/02\/23\/a-different-form-of-immigration-privilege\/\">A different form of \u201cimmigration privilege\u201d \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once a child has citizenship, this often opens the door to the parents obtaining residency or citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some countries grant citizenship to babies born in the country, regardless of the parents&#8217; status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}