baby born on plane given Canadian citizenship
Just to illustrate how capricious the citizenship business is, this item January 3, 2009 – a Ugandan mother, on a flight from Amsterdam to Boston, now has a daughter who is considered a Canadian citizen because she was born in Canadian airspace. A Chinese 457 visa holder who had lived in Australia since 2005 also gave birth to a little girl last month, but the Australian government considers the child to be Chinese – and also stated that the baby could remain provided the sponsoring employer agreed that she could be added as a dependent!
Nayano Taylor-Neumann
