Гражданство по происхождению (родился за границей от родителя из Гренады)

Person born outside Grenada on or after 7 February 1974 is a citizen by descent if a parent is a Grenadian citizen otherwise than by descent (Constitution s.97).

• Descent (first generation): a person born outside Grenada on or after 7 February 1974 becomes a citizen of Grenada automatically at the date of birth if, at that date, his or her father OR mother is a citizen of Grenada (otherwise than by descent) — Constitution Cap 128A s.97. Acquisition is automatic at birth with NO registration step and NO registration deadline; only one Grenadian parent is required. - Generational limit (one-generation descent abroad): s.97 transmission is excluded where the Grenadian parent is a citizen of Grenada ONLY 'by virtue of this section [s.97] or section 94(3)'. A parent who is Grenadian solely by descent (s.97) — or solely by the colonial out-of-Grenada CUKC-descent route at independence (s.94(3)) — does NOT transmit citizenship to a child born abroad. Thus citizenship-by-descent abroad does not cascade indefinitely across successive foreign-born generations; the chain stops after one generation born abroad to a descent-only parent. - Maternal/paternal equality from independence: both the jus soli provisos (s.96) and the descent rule (s.97) are expressed in gender-neutral terms ('his or her father or his or her mother'), so a Grenadian mother transmits descent equally with a Grenadian father with effect from 7 February 1974. Grenada's Constitution did NOT carry the male-line-only transmission rule common in pre-reform Commonwealth nationality statutes. - Out-of-wedlock construction (s.100(2)): for the purposes of Part VII, any reference to the FATHER of a person born out of wedlock and not legitimated is construed as a reference to the MOTHER. The effect is that an unmarried Grenadian mother's status governs the s.97 descent claim of her non-legitimated child, and the father's status is read out unless the child is legitimated. - Minor-registration entitlement at independence (s.95(2)): a person born outside Grenada who was, on 6 February 1974, a CUKC and under 18 was ENTITLED to be registered as a citizen if his or her parent became a citizen on 7 February 1974 by virtue of s.94(2), provided application was made on the minor's behalf before age 18 (or such later date as Parliament prescribes). This is a transitional registration entitlement (not automatic descent), omitted from.

• Proof of parent's citizenship for descent: a s.97 descent claim turns on documentary proof that, at the date of the child's birth, a parent was a citizen of Grenada otherwise than by descent. The live administrative pathway is operated by the Department of Home Affairs (Office of the Prime Minister) and via Grenadian missions abroad, with separate 'Child of a Grenadian Under 18' and 'Over 18' processes.

• Deceased-parent timing rule (s.100(4)): where a person is born after the death of his or her father, the father's national status is taken at the time of the father's death; and where that death occurred before 7 February 1974 but the birth occurred on/after that date, the national status the father would have had if he had died on 7 February 1974 is deemed his status at death. This fixes the reference date for descent claims involving a pre-birth-deceased parent.

Timeline: automatic. Document burden: medium. Required: none of residency/language/presence/renunciation.

Primary statute: Constitution Cap 128A s.97. Operative 1974-02-07–present. Authority: Ministry of Home Affairs.