Editing Jus soli (section)

== Restricted ''jus soli'' ==
There is a trend in some countries toward restricting ''jus soli'' by requiring that at least one of the child's parents be a citizen, national or legal permanent resident of the state in question at time of the child's birth.<ref name=cmatters>{{cite journal |title='Citizenship Matters': Lessons from the Irish citizenship referendum |author=Mancini, JoAnne |author2=Finlay, Graham |pages=575–599 |volume=60 |issue=3 |date=September 2008 |doi=10.1353/aq.0.0034 |journal=American Quarterly |s2cid=145757112|url=http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/2325/1/JM_citizenship.pdf }}</ref> Modification of ''jus soli'' has been criticized as contributing to economic inequality, the perpetuation of [[unfree labour]] from a [[helot]] underclass<ref name=cmatters/> and [[statelessness]]. ''Jus soli'' has been restricted in the following countries:

=== Africa ===
* {{flag|Egypt|name}}: According to the nationality law of the Arab Republic of Egypt and its latest amendments, children born to an Egyptian father or an Egyptian mother acquire citizenship at birth, regardless of their place of birth. Additionally, children born in Egypt to unknown parents (or found abandoned at a young age) are granted citizenship at birth.<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 May 1975 |title=Law No. 26 of 1975 Concerning Egyptian Nationality |url=https://www.refworld.org/legal/legislation/natlegbod/1975/en/17434 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613064002/https://www.refworld.org/legal/legislation/natlegbod/1975/en/17434 |archive-date=13 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=14 July 2004 |title=Law # 154 for Year 2004 – Amending Some Provisions of Law No.26 of 1975 Concerning Egyptian Nationality |url=https://www.refworld.org/legal/legislation/natlegbod/2004/en/115992 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210122947/https://www.refworld.org/legal/legislation/natlegbod/2004/en/115992 |archive-date=10 December 2024}}</ref>
* {{flag|Morocco|name}}: A person who was born in Morocco to parents also born in Morocco and whose immigration is legal, can register as a Moroccan two years prior to becoming adult.<ref>{{cite web|title=الاستقبال-الأجانب في المغرب-الأجانب المقيمون-اكتساب الجنسية المغربية|url=http://www.service-public.ma/ar/web/guest/home;jsessionid=31E8E3F1814E4188F1BBC1FFD90CDE6B?p_p_id=mmspservicepublicdiffusion_WAR_mmspservicepublicdiffusionportlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_mmspservicepublicdiffusion_WAR_mmspservicepublicdiffusionportlet__spage=%2Fportlet_action%2Fprocedure%2Frubrique%2Fview%3FrubriqueSelected.idRubrique%3D13591&_mmspservicepublicdiffusion_WAR_mmspservicepublicdiffusionportlet_rubriqueSelected.idRubrique=13591|website=Service-public.ma|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-date=7 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007144333/http://www.service-public.ma/ar/web/guest/home;jsessionid=31E8E3F1814E4188F1BBC1FFD90CDE6B?p_p_id=mmspservicepublicdiffusion_WAR_mmspservicepublicdiffusionportlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_mmspservicepublicdiffusion_WAR_mmspservicepublicdiffusionportlet__spage=%2Fportlet_action%2Fprocedure%2Frubrique%2Fview%3FrubriqueSelected.idRubrique%3D13591&_mmspservicepublicdiffusion_WAR_mmspservicepublicdiffusionportlet_rubriqueSelected.idRubrique=13591|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{flag|Namibia|name}}: A person born in Namibia to a Namibian citizen parent or a foreign parent who is ordinarily resident in Namibia, is a Namibian citizen at birth (see [[Namibian nationality law]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Namibian Citizenship Act 14 of 1990 |url=https://www.lac.org.na/laws/summaries/Citizenship.pdf}}</ref>
* {{flag|São Tomé and Príncipe|name}}: A person born in São Tomé and Príncipe acquires São Toméan nationality, as long as the parents are residents of the country. The only exception is if any of the parents have diplomatic immunity (see [[São Toméan nationality law]]).
* {{flag|South Africa|name}}:<ref name="cmatters" /> Since 6 October 1995, a person born in South Africa to South African citizens or permanent residents is automatically granted South African citizenship (see [[South African nationality law]]).
* {{flag|Sudan|name}}: A person born before 1994 gains Sudanese nationality at birth if his father was also born in Sudan. If his father was not born in Sudan, they can apply to the Minister to be granted Sudanese nationality.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Sudanese Nationality Act 1994 and Sudanese Nationality Act (Amendment) 2011 (English Translation)|url=http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/502cc1b92.pdf|website=E-justice.th|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-date=31 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231013325/http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/502cc1b92.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=خدمات الجنسية|url=http://www.civil.gov.sd/pages/nat.php|date=21 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621074642/http://www.civil.gov.sd/pages/nat.php|archive-date=21 June 2011}}</ref>
* {{flag|Tanzania|name}}:<ref name="Manby"/> The [[Tanzanian nationality law#Citizenship by birth|Tanzania Citizenship Act of 1995]], states that "any child born within the borders of the United Republic of Tanzania, on or after Union Day, 26 April 1964, is granted citizenship of Tanzania, except for children of a father who has diplomatic immunity, or parents who were enemy aliens and the territory was under enemy occupation."<ref name=Refworld>{{cite web |author=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b5734.html |title=Tanzania Citizenship Act, 1995 |publisher=Refworld |access-date=6 September 2013 |archive-date=14 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914164938/http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b5734.html |url-status=live }}</ref> While Tanzania technically observes birthright citizenship, it is official practice that birth in Tanzania has to be further supported by descent from a Tanzanian parent to be recognized as a citizen by birth. This practice has gone uncontested in courts of law.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/66748/RSC_GLOBALCIT_2020_6.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=Report on Citizenship Law: Tanzania |id=RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-CR 2020/6 |date=April 2020 |first1=Caroline |last1=Nalule |first2=Anna |last2=Nambooze |publisher=Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), [[Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies]] |access-date=4 August 2021 |archive-date=8 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008014208/https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/66748/RSC_GLOBALCIT_2020_6.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{flag|Tunisia|name}}: Individuals born in Tunisia are citizens by birth if their father and grandfather were born in Tunisia. Additionally, the person must declare before becoming an adult (20 years) that they want to be a citizen.<ref>{{cite web|title=1 -لمن يمكن إسناد الجنسية التونسية باعتبارها جنسية|url=http://www.e-justice.tn/fileadmin/fichiers_site_arabe/droits_demarches/Proce_nationalite.pdf|website=E-justice.th|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-date=25 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025110701/http://www.e-justice.tn/fileadmin/fichiers_site_arabe/droits_demarches/Proce_nationalite.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== North America ===
* {{flag|Dominican Republic|name}}: [[Constitution of the Dominican Republic|The constitution]] was amended on 26 January 2010. The amendment broadened the definition of the 2004 migration law – which excluded from citizenship children born to individuals that were "in transit" – to include "non-residents" (including individuals with expired residency visas and undocumented workers).<ref>{{cite web|title=The Constitution and the Right to Nationality in the Dominican Republic – Human Rights Brief Human Rights Brief|url=http://hrbrief.org/2010/10/the-constitution-and-the-right-to-nationality-in-the-dominican-republic/|date=29 October 2010|website=Hrbrief.org|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-date=19 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919223028/http://hrbrief.org/2010/10/the-constitution-and-the-right-to-nationality-in-the-dominican-republic/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A Crisis of Nationality: Dominicans of Haitian Descent|url=http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/Dominican-Republic-Nationality-Report-ENG-20110805.pdf|date=October 2013|website=Soros.org|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-date=27 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627180728/https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/Dominican-Republic-Nationality-Report-ENG-20110805.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author1=Ezequiel Abiu Lopez|author2=Danica Coto|date=27 September 2013|title=Dominican Republic To End Citizenship Of Those Whose Parents Entered Illegally|work=Huffington Post|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/27/dominican-republic-citize_n_4002844.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114231248/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/27/dominican-republic-citize_n_4002844.html|archive-date=14 November 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=7 December 2013|title=A storm in Hispaniola|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21591203-and-no-agreement-how-many-have-been-cut-citizenship-storm-Hispaniola|access-date=2 September 2017|archive-date=29 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829051013/https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21591203-and-no-agreement-how-many-have-been-cut-citizenship-storm-hispaniola|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Inventario extranjeros Registro Civil RD 1929 – 2007 by Junta Central Electoral (JCE)|url=https://issuu.com/publicacionesjce/docs/inventario_extranjeros_registro_civ|date=7 November 2013|website=Issuu.com|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-date=10 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810150427/https://issuu.com/publicacionesjce/docs/inventario_extranjeros_registro_civ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=immigrationplan|url=http://www.domrep.org/letter.html|website=Domrep.org|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-date=16 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316175858/http://www.domrep.org/letter.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== South America ===
* {{flag|Colombia|name}}: Article 96 of the [[Constitution of Colombia|constitution]] grants Colombian nationality by birth provided that at least one of the parents is a Colombian national or a legal resident.<ref>{{cite web|title=Constitución Política de Colombia|url=https://www.constitucioncolombia.com/titulo-3/capitulo-1/articulo-96|access-date=9 August 2021|archive-date=10 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810041041/https://www.constitucioncolombia.com/titulo-3/capitulo-1/articulo-96|url-status=live}}</ref> By presidential decree, in August 2019 nationality was granted to children of Venezuelan migrants born in Colombia regardless of residential status of their parents.<ref>{{cite web|title=Estado colombiano concede la nacionalidad a niños nacidos en Colombia, hijos de migrantes venezolanos, para proteger sus derechos|date=5 August 2019|url=https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/newsroom/news/estado-colombiano-concede-nacionalidad-ninos-nacidos-colombia-hijos-migrantes|access-date=9 August 2021|archive-date=10 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810042045/https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/newsroom/news/estado-colombiano-concede-nacionalidad-ninos-nacidos-colombia-hijos-migrantes|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Asia ===
* {{Flag|Azerbaijan}}: Article 52 of the constitution of Azerbaijan mentions that a person born on the territory of Azerbaijan is a citizen of Azerbaijan. Although in practice that provision is not enforced and persons are only granted citizenship by right based on the other provision within the article that mentions a person whose one parent is a citizen of Azerbaijan is also a citizen of Azerbaijan.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Azerbaijan 1995 (rev. 2009) Constitution – Constitute |url=https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Azerbaijan_2009 |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=www.constituteproject.org |language=en}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Bahrain}}: Children born to a foreign father with valid residency permits who himself was born in Bahrain have right to citizenship.<ref>{{cite web|title=Part one of Bahraini citizenship|url=http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/3fb9f34f4.pdf|website=Ref world|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924124920/http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/3fb9f34f4.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{flag|Cambodia|name}}: In 1996, Cambodia changed the law to grant citizenship to children born to foreign parents if both parents were born in Cambodia and are living legally in Cambodia (under Article 4(2)(a) of the 1996 Nationality Law).<ref>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/86094/96932/F2069641919/KHM86094.pdf Law on Nationality of 20 August 1996 (unofficial translation) published by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805190215/http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/86094/96932/F2069641919/KHM86094.pdf |date=5 August 2019 }} CHAPTER II KHMER NATIONALITY/CITIZENSHIP BY BIRTH Promulgated on 9 October 1996, "...shall obtain Khmer nationality/citizenship, by having been born in the Kingdom of Cambodia: a. any child who is born from a foreign mother and father (parents) who were born and living legally in the Kingdom of Cambodia."</ref>
*{{flag|China}}: China has strict nationality laws that limit ''jus soli'' citizenship to children born to stateless parents who have settled in China.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China |url=https://cn.ambafrance.org/IMG/pdf/loi_nationalite_chine.pdf |website=Le France en Chine |publisher=The Embassy of France in Beijing}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|Hong Kong}} [[Right of abode in Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]: Since the July 1997 [[transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong]], most political rights and eligibility for most benefits are conferred to permanent residents regardless of citizenship. Conversely, PRC citizens who are not permanent residents (such as residents of [[Mainland China]] and [[Macao]]) are not conferred these rights and privileges. The [[Basic Law of Hong Kong|Basic Law]] provides that all [[People's Republic of China nationality law|citizens]] of the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) born in the territory are permanent residents of the territory and have the [[right of abode in Hong Kong]]. The 2001 case ''[[Director of Immigration v. Chong Fung Yuen]]'' clarified that the parents need not have right of abode<ref name="Chen">{{cite journal|last=Chen|first=Albert H. Y.|year=2011|title=The Rule of Law under 'One Country, Two Systems': The Case of Hong Kong 1997–2010|url=http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/ntulawreview/articles/6-1/09-Article-Albert%20H.%20Y.%20Chen_p269-299.pdf|journal=National Taiwan University Law Review|volume=6|issue=1|pages=269–299|access-date=4 October 2011|archive-date=25 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025110706/http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/ntulawreview/articles/6-1/09-Article-Albert%20H.%20Y.%20Chen_p269-299.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> and as a consequence many women from Mainland China began coming to Hong Kong to give birth. By 2008, the number of babies in the territory born to Mainland China mothers had grown to twenty-five times the number five years prior.<ref>{{cite news|date=September 2011|title=Babies Born in Hong Kong to Mainland Women|periodical=Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics|url=http://www.statistics.gov.hk/publication/feature_article/B71109FB2011XXXXB0100.pdf|url-status=dead|access-date=4 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125040302/http://www.statistics.gov.hk/publication/feature_article/B71109FB2011XXXXB0100.pdf|archive-date=25 November 2011}}</ref><ref name="FiveYearsGrowTwentyFiveTimes">{{cite news|date=10 March 2008|title=內地來港產子數目5年急增25倍 香港擬收緊綜援|periodical=People's Daily|url=http://hm.people.com.cn/BIG5/85423/6976796.html|url-status=dead|access-date=5 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118221836/http://hm.people.com.cn/BIG5/85423/6976796.html|archive-date=18 January 2012}}</ref> Furthermore, persons of Chinese ethnicity (wholly or partly) with PRC nationality born in Hong Kong are PRC nationals with Hong Kong permanent residence, even if their parents are non-PRC citizens (e.g. overseas-born Chinese).{{citation needed|date=February 2021}} Non-PRC citizens born to non-PRC citizen Hong Kong permanent resident parents in Hong Kong also receive permanent residence of Hong Kong at birth. Other persons must have "ordinarily resided" in Hong Kong for seven continuous years in order to gain permanent residence (Articles 24(2) and 24(5)).<ref>{{cite web|title=Basic Law Full Text – chapter (3)|url=http://www.basiclaw.gov.hk/en/basiclawtext/chapter_3.html|website=Basiclaw.gov.hk|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-date=28 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928131256/http://www.basiclaw.gov.hk/en/basiclawtext/chapter_3.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{flag|Indonesia|name}}: Indonesian citizenship by birth includes those born anywhere whose parents are both Indonesian nationals, or any person born in Indonesia with at least one Indonesian citizen parent, or a child born in Indonesia to unknown parents, or those born out of wedlock. Citizenship can also be granted to a permanent resident who has lived in Indonesia for a given period of time through naturalization, as long as the parents are stateless, or unknown.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harijanti |first1=Susi Dwi |title=Report On Citizenship Law: Indonesia |url=https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/45372/GLOBALCIT_CR_2017_04.pdf |website=cadmus.eui.eu |publisher=[[European University Institute]] |access-date=11 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115134311/https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/45372/GLOBALCIT_CR_2017_04.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2020 |location=[[Badia Fiesolana]] |date=February 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{flag|Iran|name}}: Article 976(4) of the Civil Code of Iran grants citizenship at birth to persons born in Iran of foreign parents if one or both of the parents were themselves born in Iran. Article 976(5) People born in Iran of a father of foreign nationality who have resided at least one more year in Iran immediately after reaching the full age of 18; in other cases their naturalization as Iranian subjects will be subject to the stipulations for Iranian naturalization laid down by the law. New legislation passed by the Iranian Parliament in 2012 grants permanent residency to children born to Iranian mothers and foreign fathers. See [[Iranian nationality law]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Civil Code of Iran (last amended 1985)|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,NATLEGBOD,,IRN,,3ae6b5a68,0.html|publisher=United Nations High Commission for Refugees|access-date=23 June 2012|archive-date=9 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009132805/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,NATLEGBOD,,IRN,,3ae6b5a68,0.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{flag|Israel|name|name=Israel}}: Children born in Israel who have never acquired another citizenship are eligible to apply for Israeli citizenship between their 18th and 21st birthday if they have lived in Israel for over 5 years (see [[Israeli citizenship law]]).<ref>{{cite book |last=Kassim |first=Anis F |chapter=The Palestinians: From Hyphenated to Integrated Citizenship |editor-last=Butenschøn |editor-first=Nils A. |editor-last2=Davis |editor-first2=Uri |editor-last3=Hassassian |editor-first3=Manuel S. |title=Citizenship and the state in the Middle East: approaches and applications |publisher=Syracuse University Press |publication-place=Syracuse, N.Y. |date=2000 |isbn=0-8156-2829-3 |oclc=43318360}}</ref>
* {{flag|Japan|name}}: Children born in Japan to stateless or unknown parents are Japanese nationals at birth.<ref>{{cite web|title=THE NATIONALITY LAW|url=https://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/information/tnl-01.html#:~:text=When%20both%20parents%20are%20unknown%20or%20have%20no%20nationality%20in%20a%20case%20where%20the%20child%20is%20born%20in%20Japan.|website=The Ministry of Justice English Website|access-date=31 October 2021|archive-date=31 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031142741/https://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/information/tnl-01.html#:~:text=When%20both%20parents%20are%20unknown%20or%20have%20no%20nationality%20in%20a%20case%20where%20the%20child%20is%20born%20in%20Japan.|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|Macau}} [[Right of abode in Macau|Macau]]: Similar to Hong Kong, most political rights and eligibility for most benefits are conferred to permanent residents regardless of citizenship since the December 1999 [[transfer of sovereignty over Macau]], according to the [[Macao Basic Law|Basic Law of Macau]]. Becoming a Macau permanent resident has slightly different requirements depending on an individual's nationality. Acquisition by birth operates on a modified ''jus soli'' basis; individuals born in Macau to Chinese nationals or to Portuguese citizens [[Domicile (law)|domiciled]] there are automatically permanent residents, while those born to other foreign nationals must have at least one parent who possesses right of abode (see [[Right of abode in Macau]]).<ref name="L8/1999A1">{{cite act |title=Lei sobre Residente Permanente e Direito de Residência na Região Administrativa Especial de Macau |trans-title=Law about Permanent Resident and Right of Abode in the Macao Special Administrative Region |number=8 |year=1999 |language=Portuguese |url=http://images.io.gov.mo/bo/i/1999/01/lei-8-1999.pdf |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-date=11 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411211418/https://images.io.gov.mo/bo/i/1999/01/lei-8-1999.pdf |url-status=live }}  Article 1.</ref>
* {{flag|Malaysia|name}}: A person born in Malaysia on or after 16 September 1963 with at least one parent being a Malaysian citizen or permanent resident is automatically a Malaysian citizen (see [[Malaysian nationality law]]).<ref>{{cite web|access-date=24 November 2020|title=Malaysian Government Portal relating to citizenship|url=https://www.malaysia.gov.my/portal/subcategory/17|archive-date=28 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928231852/https://www.malaysia.gov.my/portal/subcategory/17|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=24 November 2020|title=National Registration Department resources on citizenship|url=https://www.jpn.gov.my/en/tag/citizenship/|archive-date=15 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815030705/https://www.jpn.gov.my/en/tag/citizenship/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|Mongolia}} [[Mongolia]]: A person born in Mongolia to foreign parents with valid residency permits can apply for Mongolian nationality when they turn the age of 16. A child in Mongolian territory with unidentified parents can receive Mongolian citizenship (see [[Mongolian nationality law]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legalinfo.mn/law/details/525|title=ХАРЬЯАТЫН ТУХАЙ|trans-title=About Citizenship|language=Mongolian|access-date=12 December 2020|website=www.legalinfo.mn|archive-date=6 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806185645/https://www.legalinfo.mn/law/details/525|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{flag|Taiwan|name}}: Any child born to parents with [[Taiwanese people|Taiwanese]] citizenship, even those living abroad, can acquire Taiwanese nationality at birth. Children born in Taiwan to stateless parents or have unknown parentage are considered Taiwanese nationals at birth (see [[Taiwanese nationality law]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=Taiwan: Nationality laws (2000 – February 2004) |url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/41501c69e.html#:~:text=Nationality%20in%20Taiwan%20is%20regulated,unknown%20parentage%20(ibid.) |website=Refworld |access-date=9 February 2021 |archive-date=16 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116022010/https://www.refworld.org/docid/41501c69e.html#:~:text=Nationality%20in%20Taiwan%20is%20regulated,unknown%20parentage%20(ibid.) |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{flag|Thailand|name}}: Thailand operated a system of pure ''jus soli'' prior to 1972. Due to illegal immigration from Burma, the Nationality Act was amended by requiring both parents to legally reside and be domiciled in Thailand for at least five years for their child to be granted Thai citizenship at birth.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thailand|url=http://www.osg.gov.ph/index.php/component/content/article/36-country/365-thailand|publisher=Office of the Solicitor General|location=Republic of the Philippines|access-date=22 June 2012|archive-date=26 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140126004046/http://www.osg.gov.ph/index.php/component/content/article/36-country/365-thailand|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Yang|first=Bryant|year=2009|title=Life and Death Away from the Golden Land: The Plight of Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand|url=http://www.thailawforum.com/articles/Burmese-Migrants-in-Thailand-7.html|journal=Thailand Law Journal|volume=12|issue=1|access-date=22 June 2012|archive-date=2 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402071858/http://thailawforum.com/articles/Burmese-Migrants-in-Thailand-7.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Furthermore, someone who has Thai citizenship by sole virtue of ''jus soli'' may be stripped of Thai citizenship under various conditions (such as living abroad), which does not apply to people who have Thai citizenship by virtue of ''jus sanguinis''.<ref>{{cite journal|date=27 February 2008|title=Amendments to the Nationality Act 2008|url=http://www.thailawforum.com/database1/Amendments-to-the-nationality-act.html|journal=Government Gazette of Thailand|volume=125|access-date=22 June 2012|archive-date=11 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111080528/http://www.thailawforum.com/database1/Amendments-to-the-nationality-act.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Europe ===
* {{flag|France|name}}: Children born in France (including [[Overseas France|overseas territories]]) to at least one parent who is either (i) a French national or (ii) born in France, are automatically granted French nationality at birth. Children born in France to foreign parents who do not fulfil either of these two conditions may acquire citizenship from age 13 subject to residence conditions (see [[French nationality law]]). A child born in France to foreign parents becomes a French citizen automatically upon turning 18, provided that they reside in France on their 18th birthday and have had their primary residence in France for a total (but not necessarily continuous) period of at least 5 years since the age of 11. Children born in France to two [[Statelessness|stateless]] parents receive French nationality automatically at birth.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Comment devient-on citoyen français ? |url=https://www.vie-publique.fr/fiches/23849-comment-devient-citoyen-francais |access-date=23 November 2023 |website=www.vie-publique.fr}}</ref>
* {{flag|Germany|name}}: Prior to 2000, Germany's [[German nationality law|nationality law]] was based entirely on ''[[jus sanguinis]]'', but now children born in Germany on or after 1 January 2000 to non-German parents acquire German citizenship at birth if at least one parent has a permanent residence permit and resided in Germany for at least five years prior to the child's birth.
* {{flagicon|Greece}} [[Greek nationality law|Greece]]: Apart from regulations in past and historic nationality laws of Greece granting nationality ''jus soli'',<ref>e.g., child born in Greece to alien parents after coming of age (Nationality law of 1835, Article 2), child born in Greece of unknown father and mother (Greek Civil Law of 1856, Article 14, Paragraph c), child born in Greece and not automatically acquiring another nationality (Greek Nationality Code of 1955, Article 1, Paragraph d)</ref> the [[Greek nationality law|Greek Nationality Code]] of 2004 states that "A person born in Greek territory acquires by birth the Greek nationality if not acquiring alien nationality or is of unknown nationality".<ref>{{cite web|title=Greek Nationality Code (Law 3284 of 2004)|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGQ_kZuUB4NxXdtvSoClrL8EegH9xtRd-R5MXD0LzQTLWPU9yLzB8V68knBzLCmTXKaO6fpVZ6Lx3UnKl3nP8NxdnJ5r9cmWyJWelDvWS_18kAEhATUkJb0x1LIdQ163nV9K--td6SIuWsLHX0bpf96NtWuRfc9Zq-Rx6Ucr5qB1DD2JpqdvYoP|website=Et.gr|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-date=7 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007144449/http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGQ_kZuUB4NxXdtvSoClrL8EegH9xtRd-R5MXD0LzQTLWPU9yLzB8V68knBzLCmTXKaO6fpVZ6Lx3UnKl3nP8NxdnJ5r9cmWyJWelDvWS_18kAEhATUkJb0x1LIdQ163nV9K--td6SIuWsLHX0bpf96NtWuRfc9Zq-Rx6Ucr5qB1DD2JpqdvYoP|url-status=live}}</ref> Additionally, as from 2015's amendment of 2004 Code (Law 4332 of 2015, G.G. A/76/9 July 2015), a child born in Greece by foreign parents shall acquire the right of Greek nationality with a combination of primary school attendance and parents' legal residence in Greece (5 years, 10 if the child is born prior to 5 years of legal residence).<ref>"Article 1 A child of foreigner parents born in Greece acquires the right to Greek nationality under the following preconditions: a) He/she has enrolled in the first grade of elementary school and is still attending Greek school at the time the application-declaration of paragraph 2 is being lodged. b) One of their parents has been living legally and continuously for at least five (5) years in the country before the child was born. In case the child was born before this five year period had been completed, then the necessary period of legal and continuous residence of the parents is extended to ten (10) years." See, [http://www.ypes.gr/UserFiles/24e0c302-6021-4a6b-b7e4-8259e281e5f3/metan-n4332-2015.pdf Law 4332 of 2015] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923190247/http://www.ypes.gr/UserFiles/24e0c302-6021-4a6b-b7e4-8259e281e5f3/metan-n4332-2015.pdf |date=23 September 2016 }}</ref> One year after the implementation of the law (as from July 2016), 6,029 children had been granted Greek nationality, out of 27,720 submitted applications.<ref>{{cite web|title=Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-07-04|url=http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2016/16-07-04_5.apeen.html#02|date=4 July 2016|website=Hri.org|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-date=7 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007144543/http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2016/16-07-04_5.apeen.html#02|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{flag|Republic of Ireland|name|name=Ireland}}: On 1 January 2005, the law was amended to require that at least one of the parents be an Irish citizen; a British citizen; a resident with a permanent right to reside in Ireland or in Northern Ireland; or a legal resident residing three of the last four years in the country (excluding students and asylum seekers) (see [[Irish nationality law]]).<ref name="cmatters" /> The amendment was prompted by the case of [[Chen v Home Secretary|Man Chen]], a Chinese woman living in mainland [[United Kingdom]] who traveled to [[Belfast]] ([[Northern Ireland]], part of the UK) to give birth in order to benefit from the previous rule whereby anyone born on any part of the [[Ireland|island of Ireland]] was automatically granted Irish citizenship. The Chinese parents used their daughter's Irish (and thereby [[Citizenship of the European Union|European Union]]) citizenship to obtain permanent residence in the UK as parents of a dependent EU citizen. Ireland was the last country in Europe to abolish unrestricted ''jus soli''. (see [[Irish nationality law]]).<ref>{{Citation |title=Kunqian Catherine Zhu and Man Lavette Chen v Secretary of State for the Home Department |date=19 October 2004 |url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:62002CJ0200 |issue=Case C-200/02 |access-date=11 August 2023 |language=en |archive-date=11 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811105022/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:62002CJ0200 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{flag|Italy|name}}: The law that regulates this right is n. 91 of 5 February 1992. Article 4 paragraph 2 grants this possibility to a person born in Italy, who has legally resided there without interruption until reaching the age of 18, and becomes a citizen if they declare that they wish to acquire Italian citizenship within one year from the aforementioned date. They can make use of this right by submitting a simple declaration of will to the Civil Status Office of their municipality of residence. It is important to know that the Municipality of belonging is required, according to article 33 of Law 98/2013, to inform foreign citizens, during the 6 months preceding the age of 18, of the possibility of applying for Italian citizenship by the age of 19. In the absence of such communication, the request can be made even after the age of 19. In the event that, despite having been born in Italy, one has not had continuous residence from birth, but has resided in Italy for at least three years, at the age of 18, the application can be presented at the Prefecture with all the necessary documentation. Furthermore, in application of art. 1 of the same law and which aims to prevent statelessness, in Italy the ''jus soli'' is applied in other cases: – by birth in Italy of unknown or stateless parents; – by birth on Italian territory of foreign parents unable to transmit their citizenship to the subject according to the law of the country of origin; – the child of unknown persons found in the territory of the Republic is considered a citizen by birth, if the possession of another citizenship is not proven.
* {{flag|Latvia}}: A person born since 1 January 2020 in Latvia or to Latvian-resident parents defaults to Latvian citizenship, although the child can instead gain a different citizenship at birth if both parents agree on this; if either parent is a citizen of another country, the parents must submit documentation disclaiming any other birthright citizenship the child would otherwise be entitled to in order for the child to be recognized as a Latvian citizen by ''jus soli''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=19 October 2019|title=No more "non-citizens" to be born in Latvia from 2020|url=https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/no-more-non-citizens-to-be-born-in-latvia-from-2020.a335553/|url-status=live|access-date=6 December 2024|website=[[Public Broadcasting of Latvia]]|language=en|archive-date=1 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301192200/https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/no-more-non-citizens-to-be-born-in-latvia-from-2020.a335553/}}</ref>
* {{flag|Luxembourg}}: A person born in Luxembourg is automatically a [[Luxembourgish nationality law|Luxembourg citizen]] if at least one of their parents was also born in Luxembourg.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Obtaining Luxembourgish nationality by simple operation of law – Citoyens // Luxembourg|url=https://guichet.public.lu/citoyens/en/citoyennete/nationalite-luxembourgeoise/possession-automatique/effet-loi/index.html|website=guichet.public.lu|access-date=11 June 2018|archive-date=12 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142439/https://guichet.public.lu/citoyens/en/citoyennete/nationalite-luxembourgeoise/possession-automatique/effet-loi/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Additionally, a person born in Luxembourg to foreign, non-Luxembourg-born parents can become a Luxembourg citizen from the age of 12 if they have resided uninterrupted in Luxembourg for at least 5 years immediately prior to submitting the application, and if at least one of their parents lived in Luxembourg uninterrupted for at least 12 months immediately preceding their birth.<ref>{{cite web|title=Acquiring Luxembourgish nationality by option|url=https://guichet.public.lu/en/citoyens/citoyennete/nationalite-luxembourgeoise/acquisition-recouvrement/option.html|website=Guichet.lu|access-date=21 January 2020|archive-date=4 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204040431/https://guichet.public.lu/en/citoyens/citoyennete/nationalite-luxembourgeoise/acquisition-recouvrement/option.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Furthermore, a person born in Luxembourg to foreign, non-Luxembourg-born parents gains Luxembourg citizenship automatically upon reaching the age of 18, provided that they have lived uninterrupted in Luxembourg for the preceding 5 years and at least one of their parents lived uninterrupted in Luxembourg for at least 12 months immediately preceding their birth.<ref name=":0" />
* {{flag|Malta}}: A person born in Malta on or after 1 August 1989 is automatically a Maltese citizen if at least one of their parents is Maltese or was born in Malta. Anyone born in Malta before 1 August 1989, regardless of their parents' circumstances, is automatically a Maltese citizen, as the country conferred unconditional ''jus soli'' until this date (see [[Maltese nationality law]]).
* {{flag|Netherlands|name}}: After 31 December 1984, the following conditions apply: "The child's mother has Dutch nationality at the time of birth, or the child's parents both have Dutch nationality at the time of birth, or the father of the child has Dutch nationality at the time of birth and is married/registered partner to the non-Dutch mother or acknowledged the child, or the child and the child's mother have their principal residence in the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time of birth. One of the mother's parents also had her main residence in the Kingdom on the day the mother was born, or the child and the child's father have their principal residence in the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time of birth. One of the father's parents also had his main residence in The Kingdom on the day the father was born."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Naturalisatiedienst |first=Immigratie-en |title=Nederlander door geboorte, erkenning of adoptie |url=https://ind.nl/nl/nederlanderschap/nederlander-door-geboorte-erkenning-of-adoptie |access-date=19 November 2023 |website=ind.nl |language=nl-NL}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Naturalisatiedienst |first=Immigratie-en |title=Dutch citizen by birth, acknowledgment or adoption |url=https://ind.nl/en/dutch-citizenship/dutch-citizen-by-birth-acknowledgment-or-adoption |access-date=19 November 2023 |website=ind.nl |language=nl-NL}}</ref>
* {{flag|Portugal|name}}: A child born in Portuguese territory to parents who do not possess another nationality is a Portuguese citizen. Also, a person born to foreign parents who were not serving their respective states at the time of birth is a Portuguese citizen if the person declares that they want to be Portuguese and provided that one of the parents has resided in Portugal for at least one year at the time of birth.<ref>[https://dre.pt/dre/legislacao-consolidada/lei/1981-34536975-48300275 Lei da Nacionalidade – Capítulo I] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101202928/https://dre.pt/dre/legislacao-consolidada/lei/1981-34536975-48300275 |date=1 January 2023 }} Retrieved 11 March 2023</ref>
* {{flag|Spain|name}}: A child born in Spain to foreign parents may acquire Spanish citizenship ''jus soli'' under certain conditions, for example, if either one of the parents was also born in Spain or if neither of the parents can transmit their nationality to the child (such as stateless parents).
* {{flaglist|Ukraine}}: A child born on the territory of Ukraine may acquire Ukrainian citizenship ''jus soli'', if they do not acquire foreign nationality by ''jus sanguinis'' from parents, or if their parents have been granted refugee or asylum status in Ukraine, or if the child is stateless or of unknown nationality (see [https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2235-14#Text Ukrainian citizenship law, articles 6 and 7]).
* {{flag|United Kingdom|name}}: Prior to 1 July 2006 unmarried British fathers did not automatically pass on their nationality to children born out of wedlock, even if those children were born in the United Kingdom. ''Jus soli'' citizenship was abolished by the [[British Nationality Act 1981|British Nationality Act of 1981]]. Since 1 January 1983 until the 2006 changes, children born out of wedlock to foreign (non-British) women were not eligible for citizenship unless the mother was legally "settled" in the country. In 2015 the law was applied retroactively to children born prior to 2006.<ref>{{Cite web| title = The sins of the father: entitlement to citizenship for children born to unmarried parents before 1 July 2006| access-date = 2025-01-28| url = https://luqmanithompson.com/news/the-sins-of-the-father-entitlement-to-citizenship-for-children-born-to-unmarried-parents-before-1-july-2006}}</ref> Under the current law, if neither parent is British or settled, then a child born in the UK can apply for British citizenship if they have spent the first ten years of their life in the UK (see [[British nationality law]]).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-nationality-policy-guidance/registration-as-british-citizen-children-accessible#children-born-in-the-uk | title=Registration as British citizen: Children (Accessible) }}</ref>

=== Oceania ===
* {{flag|Australia|name}}:<ref name="cmatters" /> Since 20 August 1986, a person born in Australia acquires Australian citizenship by birth only if at least one parent was an Australian citizen or permanent resident; or else after living the first ten years of their life in Australia, regardless of their parents' citizenship status (see [[Australian nationality law]]).
* {{flag|New Zealand|name}}:<ref name="cmatters" /> Since 1 January 2006, a person born in New Zealand acquires New Zealand citizenship by birth only if at least one parent was a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident (includes Australian citizens and Permanent Residents) (see [[New Zealand nationality law]]), or if to prevent being stateless.<ref>{{cite web|title=1000 kids face deportation or being orphaned for breaching New Zealand visa rules|url=http://www.visabureau.com/newzealand/news/07-10-2011/1000-kids-face-deportation-or-being-orphaned-for-breaching-new-zealand-visa-rules.aspx|date=7 October 2011|website=Visabureau.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093049/http://www.visabureau.com/newzealand/news/07-10-2011/1000-kids-face-deportation-or-being-orphaned-for-breaching-new-zealand-visa-rules.aspx|archive-date=4 March 2016|access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref>
* {{flag|United States}} ({{flag|American Samoa}}): People born in [[American Samoa]] do not acquire U.S. citizenship at birth, unless one of their parents is a U.S. citizen.<ref name="AScitizenship">[https://harvardlawreview.org/2017/04/american-samoa-and-the-citizenship-clause/ American Samoa and the Citizenship Clause: A Study in Insular Cases Revisionism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218222248/https://harvardlawreview.org/2017/04/american-samoa-and-the-citizenship-clause/|date=18 December 2019}}. harvardlawreview.org. Retrieved 27 July 2020.</ref>