Citizenship in India can be of different types: citizenship by birth, by descent, by naturalization or by registration. India also grants certain rights to overseas citizens to allow persons to continue to avail a certain type of Indian citizenship while being a citizen of foreign countr...
(Amendment) Act 2003 and the Citizenship (Amendment) Ordinance 2005. Indian Citizenship can be acquired through various modes, like, by birth, by registration, by descent and by naturalization. All the amendment acts related to the Indian Citizenship come into being only after the President's ...
Sandford (1857) that Native Americans might become citizens, but only by naturalization rather than birth within U.S. territory: Following the American Civil War, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (ratified in 1870, after the 14th Amendment took effect) reaffirmed the exclusion, declaring: The ...
For those who receive their citizenship by birth, there are roughly two ways that countries determine citizenship. The first is known asJus soli, which is Latin for “the right of the soil,” and the second is known as Jus sanguinis, which means “the right of blood.” ...
citizen, whether by birth or naturalization, "shall lose his [U.S.] nationality by...voting in a political election in a foreign state." This law was tested many times. In 1958, for instance, an American citizen named Perez voted in a Mexican election. The case went to the Supreme ...
Indiacitizenshipbirth registrationstatelessnessInternational surrogacy arrangements have created paradoxical situations of 'legal orphanhood' where highly desired surrogate babies with multiple parents are not recognized by either the child's country of birth or the country of the child's commissioning parent...
There are two main ways to become a U.S. citizen: by birth or through a process called naturalization. If someone is born in the United States or born to U.S. citizen parents, they are automatically a U.S. citizen. For people born outside the U.S., becoming a citizen requires goin...
The impasse regarding the legal status of sex work has for decades been at the centre of heated international debate. While local, regional and international sex workers’ associations strive to achieve the decriminalisation of sex work, the new feminist abolitionist discourse and the current framing...
You can qualify for citizenship by birth if you’re born within a country’s borders, even if your parents aren’t citizens. Also known asjus soli, this type of citizenship defines someone’s nationality by where they’re born. You can’t access citizenship by birthplace everywhere, but cou...
Australia: Australia allows citizenship by descent for eligible applicants born outside the country if at least one of their parents was an Australian citizen at the time of the applicant's birth.2 India:Indiaallows citizenship by descent if one of the eligible applicant's parents is an Indian ...