The US has historically given automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country, but this principle is not the norm ...

No. Despite Trump's claim in an NBC interview that the U.S. is the only country that grants citizenship through birth, World ...

According to the CIA’s World Factbook, there are only 37 countries which currently enforce the jus soli principle, of which 29 are in the Americas. Of the other eight, two are in India’s ...

These countries grant citizenship to anyone born in that country with no other requirements: In contrast to jus soli, World Population Review shares that 32 other countries offer "jus sanguinis ...

But this isn’t true — plenty of other countries practice the principle of unrestricted jus soli, meaning "right of soil", including the US's neighbours, Canada and Mexico. In fact, most of the ...

The vast majority of countries in the rest of the world either do not recognize the jus soli (Latin for ‘right of soil’) principle on which unrestricted birthright citizenship is based or ...

But this isn’t true — plenty of other countries practice the principle of unrestricted jus soli, meaning "right of soil", including the US's neighbours, Canada and Mexico. In fact, most of the ...