Assertion: citizenship's child | /r/CapableOf | acquire citizenship
Facets:
value: through adoption
type: MANNER
value: by being born to american residents
type: MANNER
value: by birth
type: OTHER
value: in many circumstances
type: OTHER
value: automatically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In many circumstances, even though a child is born outside the United States, if at least one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of the child's birth, the child automatically "acquires" citizenship.
text: Children who were born outside the U.S. but now live in the U.S. may acquire citizenship under Section 320 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
text: Like the laws that apply to children acquiring citizenship by being born to American residents, the laws relating to derivation have change much in the past.
text: A person born in Australia before 25 January 1949 was automatically a British subject, based on the jus soli principle, regardless of the status of their parents: children born to visitors or foreigners also acquired citizenship by birth.
text: For children who have acquired citizenship through adoption, the adoption must be complete and final.
text: Sometimes jus soli laws only operate generationally, such as in some Middle Eastern countries, where a child born in the territory will only acquire citizenship if the child's father (regardless of nationality) was born in the same territory.