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All persons born in the British Islands before 1 January 1983 were automatically granted citizenship by birth regardless of the nationalities of their parents. Individuals born in those territories since that date only receive citizenship at birth if at least one of their parents is a British citizen or holds settled status. Foreign nationals ...
Similarly, it is possible to lose belonger status in a territory while retaining BOTC or British citizenship. The British Overseas Territories Act 2002 also conferred British citizenship upon BOTCs (other than those solely connected with the Sovereign Base Areas of Cyprus), which provides for a right of abode in the United Kingdom. The ...
The Act sought to restore once again the link between citizenship and right of abode by providing that British citizenship—held by those with a close connection with either the United Kingdom or with the Crown Dependencies (that is to say, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands), or both—would automatically carry a right of abode in the UK ...
Australia: [61] 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).
By birth abroad, which constitutes "by descent" if one of the parents is a British citizen otherwise than by descent (for example by birth, adoption, registration or naturalisation in the UK). British citizenship by descent is only transferable to one generation down from the parent who is a British citizen otherwise than by descent, if the ...
The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 has also granted British Overseas Citizens, British Subjects and British Protected Persons the right to register as British citizens if they have no other citizenship or nationality and have not after 4 July 2002 renounced, voluntarily relinquished or lost through action or inaction any citizenship or nationality.
Since January 1, 1983, under the British Nationality Act 1981, people born in the British Isles, including the UK, receive citizenship at birth only if at least one of their parents is a British citizen or holds settled status. [41] This same principle was well-established in the antebellum United States.
Any person who was a BDTC before 21 May 2002 [25] automatically became a British citizen on that date, [26] and children born after that date to BDTCs also automatically acquire full citizenship. [27] Additionally, the Act renamed the status British Overseas Territories citizenship, mirroring the name change for the territories themselves as well.