Nationality is often used as a synonym for citizenship – notably in international law – although the term is sometimes understood as denoting a person's membership of a nation.

Nationality is the legal relationship between an individual human and a state.

Nationality is traditionally based either on jus soli (" right of the territory ") or on jus sanguinis (" right of blood "), although it now usually mixes both.

The Act amended the Immigration and Nationality Act by defining a refugee as any person who is outside their country of residence or nationality, or without nationality, and is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.

Title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act was amended here when the Act created the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for funding and administering federal programs for domestic resettlement and assistance to refugees.

" It is the only chapter of the 15 chapters in Title 8 ( Aliens and Nationality ) that is completely focused on a specific nationality or ethnic group.

Nationality itself is based on article 2.

Separately from this right, the Irish minister responsible for immigration may dispense with conditions of naturalisation to grant citizenship to an applicant who " is of Irish descent or Irish associations ", under section 15 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1986.

Organized by the Ambridge Chamber of Commerce, the three-day Nationality Days festival takes place in May and is located in the heart of the downtown Commercial District.

" Nationality is their first object — a nationality which will not only raise our people from their poverty, by securing to them the blessings of a domestic legislature, but inflame and purify them with a lofty and heroic love of country — a nationality of the spirit as well as the letter — a nationality which may come to be stamped upon our manners, our literature, and our deeds — a nationality which may embrace Protestant, Catholic, and Dissenter, Milesian and Cromwellian, the Irishman of a hundred generations, and the stranger who is within our gates ; not a nationality which would preclude civil war, but which would establish internal union and external independence — a nationality which would be recognised by the world, and sanctified by wisdom, virtue, and time.

There is a Dragon King Palace-Temple ( 龍宮廟 ) in the Xiaocang She Nationality Rural Township.

* Nationality Law of the Republic of China, the law which defines who is or may become a ROC national.

* Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China, the law which defines who is or may become a PRC national

The test is a requirement under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.

The current definition of the term British subject under British nationality law is contained in the British Nationality Act 1981.

In contrast, the British Nationality Act 1981 now provides that, as far as United Kingdom law is concerned, no person is a British subject except as provided by the Act.

:( b ) a person who under the British Nationality Act 1981 is a British subject ; or

Nussbaum is the author or editor of a number of books that have been influential within her field, including The Fragility of Goodness ( 1986 ), Sex and Social Justice ( 1998 ), a work with Juha Sihvola, The Sleep of Reason ( 2002 ), Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law ( 2004 ), Animal Rights ( 2004, co-editor with Cass Sunstein ), and Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership ( 2006 ).

The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101 ( a )( 15 )( H ).

The Korean Nationality Law revision which allows Korean adoptees to obtain dual citizenship was passed by the Korean National Assembly on 22nd April 2010 and officially announced on 4th May 2010.

However, the cumulative effect of stalled sovereignty negotiations, the British Nationality Act 1981 ( which would deprive many Islanders of their rights as full British citizens ), the announced withdrawal of, the shelving of plans to rebuild the Royal Marine barracks at Moody Brook, and the proposed closure of the British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken on South Georgia, was to convince Argentina that Britain had no future interest in the Islands.

* Descaracterização da Nacionalidade Portuguesa no regime monárquico ( The De-characterization of Portuguese Nationality in the Monarchical Regime ) presented in the Chamber of Deputies ( 1897 );

Acquiring Overseas citizenship of India prevents British nationals from registering as full British citizens under Section 4B of the British Nationality Act of 1981 ( which requires that nationals have no other citizenship in order to register.

British subjects may register as British citizens under section 4B of the British Nationality Act 1981 without requiring any UK residence if they have no other citizenship or nationality and have not after 4 July 2002 renounced, voluntarily relinquished or lost through action or inaction any citizenship or nationality.

The Nationality Law was revised in February 2000 ; however, there were no articles addressing the mass naturalization of Taiwanese persons as ROC citizens.

In Schneider v. Rusk, 377 U. S. 163 ( 1964 ), the Supreme Court invalidated a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 ( the McCarran-Walter Act ) that would strip naturalized Americans of their citizenship after three years ' continuous residence in their country of origin ; and in Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U. S. 253 ( 1967 ), the Supreme Court, reviewing part of the Nationality Act of 1940, held that Congress has no power to strip anyone of their citizenship, whether it is acquired by birth or by naturalization.

The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 granted British Overseas Citizens, British Subjects and British Protected Persons the right to register as British citizens if they have no other citizenship or nationality and have not after 4 July 2002 renounced, voluntarily relinquished or lost through action or inaction any citizenship or nationality.

* British Overseas citizens and British subjects who have no other nationality, and have not lost or renounced another nationality since 4 July 2002, may register as British citizens under s4B of the British Nationality Act 1981 without requiring UK residence.

The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 has also granted British Overseas Citizens, British Subjects and British Protected Persons the right to register as British citizens if they have no other citizenship or nationality and have not after 4 July 2002 renounced, voluntarily relinquished or lost through action or inaction any citizenship or nationality.

Employees of foreign persons holding Dual or Third Country Nationality from countries proscribed under ITAR 126. 1, such as Vietnam, the Peoples Republic of China (“ PRC ”), North Korea, Syria and Iran, will, as a general rule, not be authorized to have access to USML items.

The restrictions on access to USML items by Dual and Third Country National employees of a foreign person can cause significant difficulties because the current accepted definitions of Dual and Third Country Nationals do not reflect the definition of “ US persons .” The Department of State defines Dual and Third Country Nationality as follows:

Without the permit they are denied from entering mainland China ; however, those politicians are still PRC citizens under the Chinese nationality law ; acquisition of PRC citizenship of ethnic Chinese residents in Hong Kong is involuntary, although they may elect to forfeit their Chinese citizenship if they hold a foreign nationality, except the British National ( Overseas ) status and the British citizenship obtained in the British Nationality Selection Scheme.

As South Africa was a foreign country ( under United Kingdom law ) between 1 January 1973, the date the Immigration Act 1971 came into force in the UK, and 1 January 1983 ( when the British Nationality Act 1981 came into force ) South Africans cannot have right of abode in the UK unless they also hold citizenship of another Commonwealth country or of the UK itself.

Despite the foreign nature of the music, Bowerman recognises that the composer, known as Boris Groen, must be English because " Nationality in music is unmistakable.

In other words, Hong Kong residents of Chinese nationality do not lose their citizenship upon acquiring foreign one ( s ) which reinterprets Article 9 of the Nationality Law from its obvious meaning.

Persons with H-1B visas ( for specialty workers and their spouses and minor children with H-4 visas ), K visas ( for fiancees or foreign spouses of US citizens and their minor children ), L visas ( for corporate transferees & their spouses and minor children ), and V visas ( spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents ) are permitted to have dual intent under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended, allows several ways for an American citizen to petition for a foreign loved one to immigrate to the United States.

These sanctions included the imposition of Section 212 ( f ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to refuse entry into the United States of senior government officials and others who formulated, implemented, or benefited from policies impeding Nigeria's transition to democracy ; suspension of all military assistance ; and a ban on the sale and repair of military goods and refinery services to Nigeria.

The Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 granted the right of British nationality to Sophia's non-Roman Catholic descendants ; those who had obtained the right to British citizenship via this Act at any time before its repeal by the British Nationality Act 1948 retain this lawful right today.

The Nationality Law naturalized all citizens of Mandated Palestine, the inhabitants of Israel on July 15, 1952, and those who had legally resided in Israel between May 14, 1948 and July 14, 1952.

The United States Refugee Act of 1980 ( Public Law 96-212 ) was an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, and was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U. S., and to provide comprehensive and uniform provisions for the effective resettlement and absorption of those refugees who are admitted.

" Foreign persons of Greek origin ", who neither live in Greece nor hold Greek citizenship nor were necessarily born there, may become Greek citizens by enlisting in Greece's military forces, under article 4 of the Code of Greek Citizenship, as amended by the Acquisition of Greek Nationality by Aliens of Greek Origin Law ( Law 2130 / 1993 ).

The act required " substantial connection " to Britain, defined as ( a ) birth or the birth of a parent or grandparent in the United Kingdom, ( b ) a parent or Grandparent who was Naturalised in the United Kingdom, ( c ) a parent or grandparent who became a citizen of the United Kingdom or its colonies by adoption ( d ) had acquired British Nationality under legislation passed in 1948 or 1964.

From 1 January 1949, when the British Nationality Act 1948 came into force, every person who was a British subject by virtue of a connection with the United Kingdom or one of her Crown colonies ( i. e. not the Dominions ) became a Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies ( CUKC ).

British Subjects, other than by those who obtained their status by virtue of a connection to the Republic of Ireland prior to 1949, automatically lose their British Subject status on acquiring any other nationality, including British citizenship, under section 35 of the British Nationality Act 1981.

The NF fought on a platform of opposition to communism and liberalism, support for Ulster loyalism, opposition to the European Economic Community, and the compulsory repatriation of new Commonwealth immigrants who had entered Britain courtesy of the British Nationality Act, 1948.

Some saw this as an anti-Catholic appointment ; however, it was Gilmour who, as the Secretary for Scotland, repudiated the Church of Scotland's highly controversial report entitled " The Menace of the Irish Race to our Scottish Nationality ".

Fisher said nothing to the FBI and, after twenty-three minutes staring at Fisher, the FBI agents called in the waiting Immigration and Nationality Service officers who arrested Fisher and detained him under section 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

In recent years the club has become particularly identified in the media with the Lebanese and the Greek community, particularly with the club's former star goalkicker Hazem El Masri, being of a Lebanese Nationality, who Migrated from Lebanon as a young kid.

As Chairman of the Club's Race Relations & Immigration Committee, he also wrote the same month to all Club members ; " There has been a lot of ill-thought out agitation following events in China, urging the government to amend the British Nationality Act so as to give the right of UK residence to more than three million people from Hong Kong who hold British passports.

On commencement of the Indian Constitution on 26 January 1950, under British Nationality law a person who became an Indian citizen also had the status of Commonwealth citizen ( also known as a British subject with Commonwealth citizenship, a status which does not entitle the person to use a British passport ) by virtue of their Indian citizenship and India's membership of the Commonwealth.

Nikolai Nadezhdin, who initially entertained the westernized, Schellingian notion of nationality, radically changed his mind in favor of Official Nationality in the wake of the Chaadaev affair ( 1837 ), writing that " nationality had always consisted of love of the Tsar and obedience, and which in the future should display in itself, to Europe's dismay, a brilliant lesson of how from the holy unity of autocracy, must arise an exemplary and splendid national enlightenment ...".

Any person, who failed to register as a British National ( Overseas ) by 1 July 1997 and would thereby be rendered stateless, automatically became a British Overseas citizen under article 6 ( 1 ) of the Hong Kong ( British Nationality ) Order 1986.

In 1952, Trop applied for a passport, which was denied because the Nationality Act of 1940 provided that members of the armed forces of the United States who deserted would lose their citizenship.