Originally Posted by
soitgoes
It's not a loophole...it's the way it is supposed to work. Citizens of a country should be able to pass their citizenship on to their children. Now, in the past in Germany and elsewhere, only the father could do so. That has changed..
It's not how it works in the UK... British citizenship can only be passed on to one generation. Someone born abroad to British-born parents is British. ("British by descent"). Someone born abroad to parents classed as "British by descent" is not entitled to British citizenship - but anyone with at least one British-born grandparent can live and work in the UK fairly easily by applying for an ancestral visa.