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EU human rights are certainly not involved if it comes to national citizenship. And deadlines are deadlines, this is pretty much the ruling of the German constitutional court.

I was born to German parents who reside/resided in Canada.I applied for my german passport at German consulate in Toronto and received passport in approx.3 weeks.Both my kids,age 28 and 25 s/b able to apply for a German passport.
Both parents became Canadian citizens after i was born.My two youngest brothers will not be able to get their German passport as both parents were Canadian citizens at that time.

Interesting read:cool:

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.

On a side note, the US does have some complicated rules about passing on citizenship from a parent not born in the US to a child not born in the US--there are some US residency requirements that have to be met.

Human rights are certainly involved when it comes to fundamental things like national citizenship; and the denial of citizenship rights is a fundamental matter of human rights under many circumstances including that which I mentioned.

Deadlines are deadlines but that doesn't change the fact that denying children a claim to citizenship because of parental incompetence, negligence, disability or death is the equivalent of punishing the children for the acts and omissions of the parents.

For the US, there is still gender discrimination and marital status-related discrimination involved in the picture too.

My son has the German (thru me), Swedish (his mother) and the US (born here) Citizenship. Still has the option of getting the Finnish one (mother and grandparents were Finnish by birth and only changed later) and Indian one (I was Indian at birth till 1976 :) as is his Grandfather), but we decided to let that one go. The poor kid will be confused with three already :)

Only if you end up state-less. Otherwise no.

No, it's that too but also other than just that. Even if a person doesn't end up stateless, other fundamental rights derived from citizenship status -- including that tied to economic status/participation -- can be compromised by denial of citizenship.

India -- much like some other former British colonies in Asia and Africa -- has a constitutional ban against Indian citizens holding Indian citizenship and another country's citizenship at the same time. Short of surrendering all those foreign nationalities, submitting a false application or a change in their constitution, getting Indian citizenship and retaining it is not possible.

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.

In India's case, there is the Person of Indian Origin Card which gives the holder many of the benefits a passport would.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-res..._Indian_Origin

PIO and OCI status: 1) do not provide Indian citizenship; and 2) do not include the most important political rights (and even some economic rights) to which Indian citizens are entitled; and 3) do not have any use if a PIO or OCI seeker does not have and/or fails to provide a foreign (read: non-Indian) passport.

PIO and OCI are also more often than not useless when it comes to the primary benefit of a passport: ability to use that document to acquire permission to enter and enter a country other than the one that issued the passport.

That's precisely what I meant with 'should'.

I was replying to the 'loophole' comment. A loophole is something that gets around the intention of the law, and I don't think a parent's ability to pass his/her citizenship to his/her offspring is a loophole. It just is (in this case it is, and in other cases, it should be, IMO).