Subject: Re: ca-nl<br/>
Date: Dec 07, 2002 @ 13:35<br/>
Author: anton_zeilinger &lt;anton_zeilinger@hotmail (&quot;anton_zeilinger &lt;anton_zeilinger@...&gt;&quot; &lt;anton_zeilinger@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-988944777">Hello Kevin,<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; The whole story strikes me as one made-up after the fact for public <br/>
&gt; relations purposes. <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I don&#39;t think the story was made up. You can find it on any site you <br/>
like whether it be the official homepage of the Royal Family of the <br/>
Netherlands or official Canadian government sites, for instance:<br/>
<br/>
www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=feature/twohats/th_margriet<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Being born in Canada to Dutch parents wouldn&#39;t have <br/>
&gt; necessarily made her a dual citizen.<br/>
&gt; Furthermore, there was no such thing as Canadian citizenship until <br/>
&gt; 1947.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Well, it definitely would have made her a dual citizen! Dutch by the <br/>
virtue of her descent from two Dutch parents, and Canadian (or <br/>
whatever citizenship Canadians had before 1947) by the place of <br/>
birth. <br/>
<br/>
For some reason - maybe something in the Dutch rules on accession to <br/>
the throne - dual citizenship had to be prevented and so she could <br/>
not be born on Canadian soil. Therefore the maternity room had to be <br/>
temporarily declared outside of Canada!<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Even in &#39;Anglo-Saxon&#39; countries you <br/>
&gt; can claim citizenship by virtue of your parents&#39; nationality.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Yes, of course, but that&#39;s not the point here. The point is that in <br/>
countries with Anglo-Saxon law you acquire citizenship by birth in <br/>
the country under any circumstances (without exception, even if your <br/>
parents are illegal immigrants!) OR by descent, i.e. when your <br/>
parents are citizens, independent of your place of birth. In <br/>
countries in the Romanic law tradition you acquire citizenship ONLY <br/>
through descent from a citizen, no matter where you were born, <br/>
whether &#39;at home&#39; or abroad.<br/>
<br/>
an example:<br/>
German parents, child born in USA &gt; U.S. AND German citizenship<br/>
U.S. parents, child born in Germany &gt; only U.S. citizenship<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
Greetings,<br/>
Anton</div>