Why is it in many European countries, your citizenship is not based on being born in said country but by the citizenship of your parents?
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So it’s something called land right citizenship vs blood right citizenship.
On the entertaining side of things, it results in kids like my son who despite being born in the UK and speaking with a super adorable English accent that seems to be sticking (he’s almost 10) he’s only Canadian because the way our successive visas lined up there was a short gap in the parental residency requirements the reset the clock.
Less entertaining, until fairly recently the UK only gave blood right citizenship to children whose *father* was a UK citizen (with paternity being decided based on parents being married iirc, but not positive on that point). So UK mother with any other nationality father you were out of luck.
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