Since Italy became a country in 1861, there has been a surefire way to know who is and isn’t an Italian citizen: look at their parents.The first page of the civil code, published in 1865 as the rulebook to Europe’s newest country, declared that a child born to an Italian citizen was an Italian citizen.But now that founding tenet now looks set to change: https://t.co/gF9wsTCdqO ...

The announcement will be a devastating blow for those who believed the court would uphold Italy’s 160-year history of citizenship by descent, or ius sanguinis. https://t.co/nDRnqrvjLu https://t.co/oFx5gJNQQt ...

What is it to be Irish. What is it to be Irish. How do we define that.If we were given the task in this room tonight to say you are Irish, you are not Irish. How would we start. Well, if you have an Irish passport, you are Irish.If you don't, you're not reasonable. However, we have immediately discounted someone. A woman of 83 years of age, born into a house without any running water or electricity, in a time where the only method of transport was a horse and cart or your feet.She met a man not 15 miles fro ...

Some Chinese billionaires are having dozens of US-born babies via surrogate. They hire American women to help them build powerful family dynasties with payments for multiple children potentially adding up to millions. Domestic surrogacy within China is illegal, so Chinese parents are going abroad.There are even some who ship their genetic material and get a baby back at a cost of up to $200,000 per child. One video game executive who calls himself China's first father is said to have had more than a hundred ...

The Americans are coming to Britain. That is more US citizens than ever applied for British citizenship last year. The all-time high of 8,790 applicants came in the first year of Donald Trump's second term.Immigration lawyers say the rise came as a result of a desire for global mobility as well as concerns about the political situation in the United States. Americans can apply for UK citizenship via two routes. The first is called naturalization and that's for people who have legally resided in the country ...

RT IMPERATOR (@IMPERATORAUS)In his Summa Theologiae, St Thomas Aquinas laid out one of the most charitable yet practical arguments concerning immigration that effectively shaped the West for almost 1,000 years.1. Immigration must always be proportionate so that foreigners can properly assimilate into the culture and mode of worship of the state.2. Citizenship – and associated rights – should only ever be granted after the third generation to preserve the culture, mode of worship, and constitution of the sta ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)That is secondary to the main issue of where one's primary loyalties and affections lie. A dual citizen can have their primary loyalty to either country. A second or retained passport signals a special attachment of affection or loyalty in another country. Where you are raised, and if you (or your parents, which could be quite different) renounced one citizenship or another, provides extra information about loyalty and attachment. If she herself permanently renounced her U.S. citi ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@AlexUgorji_ This presumably can be easily fixed by renouncing their EU citizenship. If not, it's an extremely unacceptable policy that can and should be fixed with aggressive American diplomancy. ...

Jon Fasman, our senior culture correspondent, examines how the backlash to Reconstruction echoes in today’s arguments over race and citizenship https://t.co/CV8AjDvOsy ...

🚨BREAKING: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SET TO EXPAND PLAN TO REVOKE US CITIZENSHIPThe Trump administration is reportedly ramping up efforts to revoke U.S. citizenship for certain foreign-born Americans as part of a broader immigration crackdown.The initiative is tied to a wider strategy aimed at curbing immigration.Officials aim to send 100 to 200 cases per month to immigration litigation teams. Historically, such cases were rare and focused on individuals who hid criminal records or human rights violations. ...