Q: I have a general (universal) question regarding citizenship.
If a person is born in a city A in country B, that person has country B citizenship. But, five years later, that city A is part of a region that gains independence from country B, and the region that has gained independence is now in country C. Is the person now a citizen of country C? (The Baltic countries and Soviet Union would be a great example of this).
Even more specific, what if the person from city A in country B migrated to country D as an alien, but never became a citizen of country D? Ten, fifteen years later, is this person still a citizen of country B, or, because their birthplace is now in (new) country C, are they a citizen of country C?
A:
It's possible this is something that an immigration attorney would want to meet with the petitioner about, which is why it is still open for five weeks. Immigration attorneys I work with who handle immigration-related aspects of my property and casualty cases don't often like to work in the hypothetical. From my experience, they tend to want to know something about the individual and the nation involved. Good luck.
Tim Akpinar
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