> Children born in France to non-French parents are not automatically
> French. They may be able to get French citizenship by late teens if
> they meet certain criteria, but that's a different issue.
> http://www.southern-cross-group.org/anothercitizenship/france.html
> http://www.archives.premier-
> ministre.gouv.fr/jospin_version3/en/ie4/contenu/29905.htm
>
> This is still more restrictive than the UK rules which provide that a
> parent with permanent resident status is enough to confer British
> citizenship on a UK born child, and gives UK born children not already
> British a lifetime entitlement to apply for registration if they live
> in the UK from birth until age 10.
>
> Jeremy
Ireland was the only EU state where citizenship can be acquired from
birth, and by birth alone. They changed that law on January 1, 2005 in
order to combat "citizenship tourists" who were crowding Irish hospitals
to pop out kids and gain status in the EU.
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from http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2734580
Yet in 2003, one in four of the 23,000 or so children born in Dublin's
three main maternity hospitals had a non-Irish mother; non-EU nationals
accounted for 82% of all foreign births. Last year, 58% of the 3,270
female asylum-seekers aged over 16 were pregnant when they applied.
<<<>>>
The US should follow suit, but it's hard to amend the constitution.
On another topic, there could be up to 100,000 or more people born in
Canada from 1947 through 1977 who lost their Canadian citizenship
because their father naturalized in another country. Many don't even
know that they are stateless.
http://www3.telus.net/IamCanadian/LostCanadians.txt
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