Reply To: European Citizenship

On the same token, American citizenship whilst not based on jus sanguinis, does provide citizenship, in limited circumstances, for children born to an American parent abroad. The limitation is based on the number of years the parent lived in the United States prior to giving birth. The European model provides citizenship for second, third, fourth generation descendent’s without any of them ever having set foot in the country.

BTW, I’m not sure the example of the German and French Jews who lost their citizenship is good one, since after the war those laws were revoked retroactively and any citizen stripped of citizenship by the Nazi regime had their citizenship restored, so they weren’t stateless. Statelessness is a rare phenomenon, especially nowadays.