How is Nationality Decided

dvdfan

For the sakes of a silly argument, if a child born in England and both his parents are Irish what is the childs Nationality by law or is there no pinned down law. Does that make him or her of dual nationality or is that just a football term used?

seamus

Assuming that a child born in England is entitled to English nationality, then yes the child does have dual nationality. I know a girl who has Irish and American citizenship (came in very handy for working in the US during the summer).

Generally countries discourage the idea of "dual" nationality, instead asking people to stick to one or the other. Most countries also expressly disallow the holding of two passports, but here in good old Ireland we don't really give a ****.

Jesus Wept

by YORE MA, depending on where in the world she is when she pushes the babies out.

(it's better to get this out of the way in the first few posts)

Steve_o

There's new legislation being passed that anyone in Ireland who is married to someone from Ireland but wasn't born in the EU, might be deported as they have to live in another EU country for a certain amount of time before moving here....I think that is ridiculous!!!

redfacedbear

I know a girl with 4 passports (an therefore nationalities?)
Bermuda (by birth)
Canada (by mother)
Ireland (by grandmother)
UK (cause she can - being Bermudian and all)

watna

I have US and Irish nationality. i was born in the states and my parents applied very quickly for a passport for me. Twas very handy when on the J1. i also have Irish nationality but that involved more paperwork. The reason I am an irish national is because my mum is. We had to provide her birth cert, marriage cert and proof that I'd lived in Ireland for x number of years. What I've always wondered is how many nationalities you can have at one time. My bf has nz and south african nationality. So between us we have nationality of 4 continents! Wouldn't that be cool to have?! We were thinking of have in our first baby somewhere in Asia, just to complete the set!