That would be the common understanding in many jurisdictions-the child takes the mother's residency status. But the history of this jurisprudence in the US ran smack against the issue of slavery. How, after the Civil War, do you address the latter without cancelling the former?
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Originally Posted by Kevin-SFBucks
tourist babies? of course not. make come common sense of it.
The child should be a citizen of the location where their parents are legitimate citizens and should not gain citizenship of the location where they happened to be born just by circumstance (i.e., my parents are legitimate Americans.... I should not be a German citizen just because I happen to be born in Munich. I should be an American citizen born abroad, plain and simple, but based on the citizenship of my parents and the laws at the time I was born.).
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