16-05-2025, 08:30 AM
The majority of countries with unconditional birthright citizenship are in the Americas and the Caribbean, their policies a legacy of colonial times.
-All Central American countries have birthright citizenship, in addition to the United States, Canada and Mexico, according to the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress: Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. Costa Rica has birthright citizenship, but it requires registration.
-Most of the Caribbean also has birthright citizenship: Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.
-In South America, 10 of the 12 countries have birthright citizenship: Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Guyana.
-Pakistan in Asia has birthright citizenship, as do Lesotho and Tanzania in Africa and Tuvalu and Fiji in the South Pacific.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/world-news/360...es-have-it
-All Central American countries have birthright citizenship, in addition to the United States, Canada and Mexico, according to the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress: Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. Costa Rica has birthright citizenship, but it requires registration.
-Most of the Caribbean also has birthright citizenship: Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.
-In South America, 10 of the 12 countries have birthright citizenship: Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Guyana.
-Pakistan in Asia has birthright citizenship, as do Lesotho and Tanzania in Africa and Tuvalu and Fiji in the South Pacific.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/world-news/360...es-have-it