It's important to note that while many countries in the Americas offer unrestricted birthright citizenship, European nations ...

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 Population Review shares that 33 countries have unrestricted birthright ...

Trump made the comments on his first day back in office, as he sat in the Oval Office signing off a raft of executive orders, attempting to enact one of his campaign promises to end automatic ...

Here’s what to know about Trump’s proposal to add new restrictions in the U.S.—and how that compares to other countries.

Most countries reversed course amid rising concerns ... Around the world, moves to end jus soli have been criticized as xenophobic and cruel to immigrant families. The decision of the Australian ...

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 ...