Nationality

[Happy Seagull]

If you're born in a country (say England) does that automatically make you English? Even if you parents weren't born there or even live there?

 

[John Boy]

I always say its up to the indiviual

 

[Beach Hut]

Or try the Norman Tebbit cricket test

 

[macky]

i think if you feel english
then you are english
its when you get all this
oh i dont know but the second generation irsh
bleeting on about how bad engaland is that gets up my nose
ffs good old england schooled you nursed you
etc etc

 

[Happy Seagull]

I was just wondering legally.

Coz if i had been born on my parents trip to Germany, would that have made me a Kraut?

So is place of birth and nationality seperate?

 

[Starry]

Nope.

My two oldest children were born in Egypt and my two youngest were born in England. All four are Irish with passports and citizenship. Well, the new baby is waiting on hers but it's in the pipeline.

 

[macky]

I was just wondering legally.

Coz if i had been born on my parents trip to Germany, would that have made me a Kraut?

So is place of birth and nationality seperate?

well you would be german but also english
i think you would find it more differcult for passports
if you are born in a german hospital then you are german
if for instance you are born on a military base then you a\re english ??

 

[Lord Bracknell]

There's no such thing as English nationality. The rules about who can play for an English national side vary from sport to sport.

 

[Cian]

Being born in the UK doesn't make you a, erm, well theres no such thing as UK citizenship, but it doesn't make you legally entitled to British citizenship at all. Ditto Ireland - if born here with neither parent a citizen, you have to get it the same way they do, live here for whatever time (eight years I think) and apply for naturalisation. I think most countries are the same by now.

 

[Common as Mook]

There's no such thing as English nationality.

There should be. I'm English, not British.

 

[cannedheat]

There should be. I'm English, not British.

Same here

 

[glasfryn]

COME ON,COME ON, WE ARE ALL FECKING EUROPEAN.






hooray not.

 

[Statto]

I always say its up to the indiviual

Nail Hit on the head!

 

[NMH]

I was just wondering legally.

Coz if i had been born on my parents trip to Germany, would that have made me a Kraut?

So is place of birth and nationality seperate?

Nazi

 

[fatboy]

You take your nationality from your parents.

Why can't people be proud of what they are?

 

[Hunting 784561]

COME ON,COME ON, WE ARE ALL FECKING EUROPEAN.

ffs get with it, I'm proud to be a European, especially at Ryder Cup time.

 

[Statto]

There should be. I'm English, not British.

same here mate.

 

[Gully]

I am British, that is what it says on my passport, though I was born in England.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I am British, that is what it says on my passport, though I was born in England.

"British" can mean many things.

Current UK passports distinguish between:-
British citizens;
British Dependent Territories citizens;
British Overseas Territories citizens;
British Nationals (Overseas);
British Overseas citizens;
British protected persons; and
British subjects.

Of these, only British citizens have the right of abode in the United Kingdom (or what has been officially described in passports issued after February 2006 as Rìoghachd Aonaichte Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath).

 

[Gully]

In that case I consider myself to be a British Citizen.