I did some looking up of the British citizenship rules; gosh, they're complicated. These days there's no automatic citizenship for people born in the territory; your parents have to be properly resident here for it to count (i.e. citizens or with indefinite leave to remain). Citizenship by descent for those born outside of the UK is interesting because normally you can't transmit this, however if your parents were on Crown service that quibble doesn't count; you could (if I interpret it right) have a long line of military babies born here there and everywhere.
I think, you could reasonably cobble together some system of citizenship by descent, possibly augmented with some rules about physical presence in the country that don't refer to place of birth, that more or less preserve the status quo in practise and don't have particularly far-reaching implications. OK, it would be nice if people who are permanently resident here but not citizens (or for that matter, are citizens by descent) and might expect British citizenship for their child could pop abroad on holiday while pregnant without worries, but that seems a minor thing in the grand scheme of things.
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Date: 2015-07-03 08:18 am (UTC)I think, you could reasonably cobble together some system of citizenship by descent, possibly augmented with some rules about physical presence in the country that don't refer to place of birth, that more or less preserve the status quo in practise and don't have particularly far-reaching implications. OK, it would be nice if people who are permanently resident here but not citizens (or for that matter, are citizens by descent) and might expect British citizenship for their child could pop abroad on holiday while pregnant without worries, but that seems a minor thing in the grand scheme of things.