אזרחות מלידה בסנט קיטס ונוויס (jus soli)
אזרחות בסנט קיטס ונוויס
- זכאות
- כל אדם שנולד בסנט כריסטופר ונוויס ב-19 בספטמבר 1983 או אחריו הוא אזרח מלידה (חוקה s.91(a)), מלבד ילדיהם של דיפלומטים זרים ושל אזרחי מדינת אויב בכיבוש בזמן מלחמה.
- לוח זמנים
- automatic
- ויתור על אזרחות
- לא נדרש
סקירה כללית
Every person born in St Christopher and Nevis on or after 19 Sep 1983 is a citizen by birth (Constitution s.91(a)), save the children of foreign diplomats and of enemy aliens in wartime occupation.
מי זכאי
- Jus soli: every person born in Saint Christopher and Nevis on or after 19 September 1983 becomes a citizen at the date of their birth (no parental-status condition for the general rule), under Constitution s.91(a).
לוח זמנים
Timeline: automatic. Document burden: low. Required: none of residency/language/presence/renunciation.
בסיס משפטי
Primary statute: Constitution s.91(a) (Ch VIII). Operative 1983-09-19–present. Authority: Civil Registry / Ministry of National Security.
Exceptions & edge cases
- Born-aboard rule: a person born aboard a registered ship or aircraft (or an unregistered ship/aircraft of the Government of any country) is deemed born in the place where the ship/aircraft was registered, or in that country, for citizenship purposes (Constitution s.95(1)). - Nevis does NOT create a separate islandic citizenship (positive disconfirmation): citizenship is uniform and federal — Constitution Chapter X (Nevis, ss.100-114, incl. s.113 separation) and Chapter XI (s.115 secession) do not establish a Nevis citizenship; there is one federal 'citizen of Saint Christopher and Nevis'. The Nevis Island Administration's own portal publishes the federal Constitution Chapter 8 as the governing citizenship text. - Dual citizenship is constitutionally protected for those acquiring/holding KN citizenship: a person who is or may become a citizen of another country shall not, for that reason only, be refused registration under s.92, nor be required to renounce the other citizenship, nor be refused/stripped of a SKN passport for holding another country's passport (Constitution s.93). Relevant to birth/descent acquirers who also hold a foreign nationality.
תרחישים לדוגמה
התרחישים לדוגמה מוצגים באנגלית.
Citizen by birth automatically from the date of birth (jus soli).
Constitution s.91(a): every person born in St Christopher and Nevis on or after 19 Sep 1983 is a citizen at birth. The two provisos (parent with diplomatic immunity; enemy-alien wartime occupation) do not apply, so ordinary foreign parentage is irrelevant — KN operates broad jus soli with no parental-status or residence condition.
NOT a citizen by birth — excluded by the diplomatic proviso.
Constitution s.91(a) proviso (i): a person does not become a citizen by birth if at the time of birth neither parent is a citizen AND either parent enjoys the immunity from suit/legal process accorded to a foreign envoy accredited to SKN. This is the classic diplomatic-child carve-out; the child must look to another nationality.
Citizen by birth — the diplomatic proviso does NOT bite when one parent is a citizen.
Constitution s.91(a) proviso (i) only excludes where NEITHER parent is a citizen. Because the mother is a Kittitian citizen, the diplomatic-immunity exclusion is disapplied and the child acquires citizenship by birth under the general s.91(a) rule. Demonstrates the conjunctive structure of the proviso.
סיכום אינפורמטיבי שנערך ממקורות משפטיים ראשוניים — אינו ייעוץ משפטי. חוקי אזרחות משתנים; אמתו מול הרשות המוסמכת לפני שתפעלו. אומת לאחרונה ב-2026-06-15.
עקבו אחר שינויים במסלול זה
כללי מוצא והתאזרחות משתנים. נשלח לכם אימייל בשפה פשוטה כשמשהו שמשפיע על Saint Kitts and Nevis מתעדכן — ללא ספאם.