LuganoPirate – 03/05/2014 15:48 GMT : It used to be the case that you’d acquire the nationality of the country (or vessel) where you were born, but I think the law was changed a few years ago so you now have the nationality of your parents (US excepted) wherever you may be born.
Not necessarily, I expect, LP. Since both the Offspring were born outside the UK, but we were born in the UK, we have passed our full British citizenship to them. However, they will not be able to pass on full British citizenship to their own offspring unless (a) the child is born in the UK or (b) the father is a full British citizen and himself born in the UK (i.e. you can pass down British citizenship only through one overseas-born generation)
If either were to give birth onboard a BA (or other UK airline) flight and the father were not a UK-born British citizen, would that be treated as a birth on UK soil, I wonder?
Although I hope that doesn’t happen, on a UK or any other airline!
Last I read, the father is waiting for a visa to visit his wife and son, who will have to stay in Palma for several months until the baby is fit to travel
Best wishes to the whole family, what a stressful experience, and well done to the crew and doctor involved
