Here’s a question which you have never came across, If a baby is born on a flight, what will be his/her nationality? The law on this is very complex because various countries apply different principles of nationality.
On the basis of citizenship, you enjoy all the rights as any other person in that country.
As per rules, if a person is born in India, then he/she is entitled to get citizenship even if his/her parents aren’t from here.
Every country has different guidelines, policies, and rules regarding the citizenship of children born on plane.
There are many example to make it easier.
A pregnant lady goes into labour in an aircraft flying from India to the USA and while passing over the Canadian border she delivers a child on the plane.
The place of birth of the child will be consider as Canada and that child can get citizenship of his/her parent’s country as well.
There is no offer of dual citizenship in India.
Your nationality can be define and establish by the airlines you are flying in.
If your plane is registered in US, even when you are flying over the Pacific or between any two different country borders, you are still in US and have to abide by US nationality.
There’s also a suggestion that babies born on planes will sometimes be citizens of the country where the plane is register and sometimes take their parents’ citizenship.
Who Governs the Air?
This is also a subject of contention.
Nations have made strong claims to owning the sky.
Some countries say their territory extends 43 miles up, some say 99, NPR reported.
In 1976, eight equatorial nations, of the Bogota Declaration, boast their claims to 22,300 miles above the earth.
Everyone agrees there is an upper limit, but legal theories suggest otherwise.
Despite all these complex laws, mid-flight births are exceedingly rare, in fact, that most airlines don’t even keep track of the number of babies born in the air.
An expecting mother likely wouldn’t even be able to get onto a flight in the first place, since many airlines have rules that prohibit women from flying after they’ve reach a certain point in their pregnancy.
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