Nationality law Totally Explained

Everything about Nationality Law totally explained

Nationality law is the branch of a country's legal system wherein legislation, custom and court precedent combine to define the ways in which that country's nationality and citizenship are transmitted, acquired or lost. Nationality law is often discussed or studied along with immigration law (for those immigrant-receiving countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and with refugee or asylum law.

Common principles

Nationality laws in Continental Europe are mostly based upon the Napoleonic Code which established that for purposes of nationality, that of the father was primary. For many years, therefore, in Europe and in former European colonies, women couldn't transmit their nationality to their children born in wedlock (those children born outside of marriage could often acquire their mother's nationality as there were provisions so that no child would be stateless). Many of these laws have since been changed, with the Arab states being an exception. In many Arab states, women married to foreigners can't transmit their nationality to their children. (External Link

) Many countries also have provisions stating that native-born children of accredited foreign diplomatic staff/officers don't acquire that nationality.
   Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:
ť # Everyone has the right to a nationality.

   # No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
   Today, nationality law is based either on jus soli or jus sanguinis, or on a combination of the two. Jus soli is the principle in which a child born in a country's territorial jurisdiction acquires that country's nationality (Ex: United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, France [includingin its overseas dependencies]). In jus sanguinis, either the father or mother must normally be a citizen of the country in question in order for the child to be a citizen (for example Israel, Switzerland).

Nationality issues in post-colonial context

Often in post-colonial situations, sorting out the nationalities of settlers, colonists and subjects was difficult and often a highly politically-charged process, particularly in the United Kingdom and in so-called settler colonies of Africa, such as South Africa, Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe), Uganda and Hong Kong. For example see History of British nationality law

Examples of nationality law (Citizenship) in specific countries

Europe

EUROPEAN UNION Austrian nationality law Belgian nationality law Bulgarian nationality law British nationality law Cypriot nationality law Czech nationality law Danish nationality law Estonian nationality law	Dutch nationality law Finnish nationality law French nationality law German nationality law Greek nationality law Hungarian nationality law Irish nationality law Italian nationality law	Latvian nationality law Lithuanian nationality law Luxembourgian nationality law Maltese nationality law Polish nationality law Portuguese nationality law Romanian nationality law Slovak nationality law	Slovenian nationality law Spanish nationality law Swedish nationality law Citizenship of the European Union
NON EUROPEAN UNION Albanian nationality law Belarusian citizenship Bosnia and Herzegovina nationality law Croatian nationality law Icelandic nationality law Republic of Macedonia nationality law Moldovan nationality law	Montenegrin nationality law Norwegian nationality law Russian nationality law Serbian citizenship Swiss nationality law Ukrainian nationlaity law

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://nationality_law.totallyexplained.com">Nationality law Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.

Everything about Nationality Law totally explained

Common principles

Nationality issues in post-colonial context

Examples of nationality law (Citizenship) in specific countries

Europe

Africa

Americas

Asia & the Middle East

Oceania

Other