Outside of the Americas, most countries follow the legal principle of jus sanguinis, or \u201cright of blood,\u201d with a child\u2019s citizenship inherited from its parents, no matter the place of birth.<\/p>\n
In the European Union, for example, no member states grant automatic, unconditional citizenship to children born to foreigners.<\/p>\n
But American legal practice is descended in many ways from English common law, which had long provided for citizenship based on a child\u2019s place of birth, the legal concept of jus soli, or \u201cright of soil.\u201d<\/p>\n
The UK, though, abandoned jus soli with the British Nationality Act of 1981.<\/p>\n
Under the new rules, people born in the UK get citizenship only if at least one parent is a British citizen or has \u201csettled status\u201d under the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outside of the Americas, most countries follow the legal principle of jus sanguinis, or \u201cright of blood,\u201d with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,3138,790,3,10501,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-734896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-and-politics","tag-immigration","tag-news","tag-u-s-supreme-court","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}