(11-01-2018, 08:23 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-01-2018, 01:09 AM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote: Germany: prior to 2000 Germany had its nationality law based entirely on jus sanguinis, but now children born on or after 1 January 2000 to non-ethnic German descent parents acquire German citizenship at birth, if at least one parent has a permanent residence permit (and had this status for at least three years) and the parent was residing in Germany for at least eight years.

France:Children born in France (including overseas territories) to at least one parent who is also born in France automatically acquire French citizenship at birth (double jus soli).

A child born in France to foreign parents may acquire French citizenship:[3]

• at birth, if stateless.
  
  
• at 18, if resident in France with at least 5 years' residence since age 11.
  
  
• between 16 and 18 upon request by the child and if resident in France with at least 5 years' residence since age 11.
  
  
• between 13 and 16 upon request by the child's parents and if resident in France continuously since age 8.
  
  
• if born in France of parents born before independence in a colony/territory in the past under French sovereignty.
  
  • at birth, if born in France before January 1, 1994.
    
  • at age 18, if born in France on or after January 1, 1994.
    
    

United Kingdom: Since 1 January 1983, at least one parent must be a British citizen or be legally "settled" in the country or upon the 10th birthday of the child regardless of their parent's citizenship status 

Ireland: On 1 January 2005, the law was amended to require that at least one of the parents be an Irish citizen; a British citizen; a resident with a permanent right to reside in Ireland or In Northern Ireland; or a legal resident residing three of the last four years in the country (excluding students and asylum seekers) (see Irish nationality law).[39] The amendment was prompted by the case of Man Chen, a Chinese woman living in mainland United Kingdom who travelled to Belfast (Northern Ireland, part of the UK) to give birth in order to benefit from the previous rule whereby anyone born on any part of the island of Ireland was automatically granted Irish citizenship. The Chinese parents used their daughter's Irish (and thereby European Union) citizenship to obtain permanent residence in the UK as parents of a dependent EU citizen. Ireland was the last country in Europe to abolish unrestricted jus soli.


Interestingly enough, not one of those countries you mention allow a foreigner to enter the country illegally, cop a squat and give birth to a brand new, unrestricted free citizen.

Yes but they get pretty close.
The Western Hemisphere countries are more like us. Brazil, Mexico, etc.