Originally Posted by
Aviatrix
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.
Yes, but as you may have already noticed there is that distinction between positive and normative statements as illustrated in this context when
soitgoes used the word
should for a reason.
soitgoes supplied a normative statement, a declaration of what is ideal rather than what is necessarily the practice everywhere.
A lot of citizenship laws and practices ought to be revised, if not by the legislatures, then by the courts. That's my normative statement.