Originally Posted by
crescatfloreat
well that's different. your place of origin (or home, as the german heimatort shows better) is really your citizenship, from which cantonal and whole big federal citizenship derive.
keep in mind naturalisations even happen at the local level in the good old confoederatio.
icao doesn't require a mention of place of birth / origin, interestingly; so i guess it's a remnant from old times, like physical description that have disappeared (colour of hair!).
al
how do they list place of birth if an American tourist gives birth to a baby while vacationing in Switzerland? what will the US consular birth report or passport say
if the mother choose to exercise the "city of birth" option?