How do newly formed countries decide who gets to acquire citizenship?

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Take a country like South Sudan for example. Of course they have their citizenship laws over there. However, how did the first citizens of the nation acquire it? It can’t be based on whether you were born there or not because there was no defined country for you to be born in. And if it’s based on descent, same problem. Your parents couldn’t have been born in a country that doesn’t exist. Did South Sudan just not have de jure citizens at first?

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It’s most likely going to be people who live within the boundaries the country is formed. After all those are usually the people who are behind the country being formed. They may try to exclude people by ethnicity or open up to people outside their borders based on ethnicity.

Part of the citizenship rules with Israel is that any Jew who wants to has the right to become a citizen. Even if they don’t want to resend another citizenship. A non-jew would have to give up their other citizenship go through waiting periods and other rules in order to become a citizen of Israel.

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