heres a question for ya...

[cocaine]

if a babys born on a plane in international airspace, what nationality are they?

i was talking to someone earlier, he reckons they can choose any nationality, but he talks a load of complete **** so idk.

what u fink?

[Naruto!]

say if you are going to america.. I think they would count as an american citizen but I'm not 100%

[Bef]

Depending on where u r, most of the time the baby would acire the nationality of its parants but apparently if a child is born on a plane inside the us then there legible for us citezenship.

[Middlesbrough]

Its the parents choice i believe.

[jesus]

shouldn't it be wherever the parents reside?

[JackBuddy]

Well technically it would be a citizen of the parent's origin. I doubt it could be classed differently to where the parents live because normally tourist visas would be use... which means that somebody is in a country for a short amount of time.

If that made any sense. :S

[Technologic]

people pon planes have to follow the laws from whatever country they left...

[Bef]

found this then googled

The child would receive the nationality of the parents. Here is what determines nationality of children born on planes:

Most countries have rules set up so that the child will only acquire the nationality of the parents, such as the rules of many European and African countries. That means that just because a baby is born on a French plane (we'll use France as an example for this question), the baby would not receive French citizenship unless at least one of the parents was French, or the family had been living in France for a period of some years. The baby would only acquire the nationality of the parents. This is known as Jus Sanguinis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguin...

The US, for example, has laws set up so that a child born on a plane inside the US, or flying over it's territories would acquire US citizenship. In cases where the baby is born over US territories (and the parents are not US citizens), the baby would be born with dual citizenship - the nationality of the parents, and American citizenship. This is known as Jus Soli. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
http://foia.state.gov/masterdocs/07fam/0... Section 7FAM1116.1-3 AIRSPACE paragraph a

In the case of French citizenship, citizenship is based on a mixture the principles of Jus Sanguinis and Jus Soli. In other words both place of birth and French parentage are relevant for determining whether a person is a French citizen. However, if both parents are not French, then they can only request French citizenship for their child once the child reaches adulthood, instead of being automatically accorded it at birth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_nati...


Next thing you are probably curious about is the city of birth. This is complicated as almost every country in the world, as well as the United Nations, has procedures and recommendations for how to properly classify the geographic details of an in-air birth. The United Nations considers a child born in-flight to have been born in the airplane's registered country. Some countries point to the city where the child first disembarked the plane as the place of birth. As each country and airline have differing rules and regulations on this, there is no clear-cut answer.

People also report that children born on planes get free airfare for life. This is not true. Even if a baby is born in a plane, there have only been two recorded incidents where the baby was allowed free passage for life. This is a rarity, and NOT the norm.

Also, many airlines (not all) have restrictions on pregnant women that highly reduce the probability of women giving birth on a plane. It does happen, but is rare.

I have written articles on air travel, and at the end of one of my articles, it talks about children who are born on planes. If you would like to read it for reference, here is the URL: http://jamiehassen79.angelfire.com/pregn...

also if a plane crashed on the border of america and canada where would they burry the survivors?

[Dan2nd]

The above posted by Bef sounds right but I always thought what ever country the plane last closed its doors at is the country whos laws you have to follow until you land? So logically in my mind that'd suggest that the child's nationality should kinda follow the same rules?