Originally Posted by
Boudicca
Not quite true. I am a Brit living in Canada, and needed to jump through all sorts of hoops to get residency here.
It certainly used to be the case that Britain gave citizenship with birth. Don't know if that has changed.
I'm pretty sure that the UK never gave citizenship by birth; in fact it depended upon the mother's UK citizenship. This has changed since 1983 and the father's UK citizenship is also acceptable, but it's not clear cut.
See
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/britishcitizenship/
Last edited by Artmo; 06-01-12 at 05:50 PM.