Originally Posted by
lmashton
On the other end of the scale, I know someone who has 0 citizenships.
A friend of ours was born in Sri Lanka to a Sri Lankan mother and an Indian father. Sri Lankan citizenship law indicates that citizenship depends on the citizenship of the father, so our friend is not eligible for Sri Lankan citizenship. He would have to apply for Indian citizenship if he wanted it. He travels on a Sri Lankan passport specifically for people who do not have Sri Lankan citizenship who are in his specific situation.
My brother's ex was officially stateless and traveled on a UN passport.
Her father left the U.S. with the U.S. Army when he was 17, stayed overseas in the country he was stationed in and never came to back to the U.S. after he was 18. The county where he settled granted citizenship through the father, but the U.S. did not give citizenship to his kids because he left the U.S. before he was 18. The family didn't know that until the kids were in their teens and tried to get passports. Turns out that there were ~100 kids of former U.S. GI's in the same situation (or at least ~100 who tried to get passports) and the UN ended up granting them special status of some sort because they were officially stateless.