Numerous babies around the world are sometimes born into nationalities originally unintended, like when he or she is delivered on an airplane as it is flies over the ocean. A similar dilemma occurs for babies born on cruise ships sailing in the high seas.
If you were born on an airplane or a ship on international waters, what is you nationality? To be more specific what if your mother is american travelling on a Philippine aircraft in Indonesian airspace, and gives birth to you while on the flight, are you american, Filipino, or Indonesian?
Some nations grant citizenship to babies born in flight within their airspace. Some dont. in the US citizenship is based on the princeple of jus soli right of the soil which means american citezens are those born on united states. Indonesian uses the principle of jus soli and jus sanguinis right of blood, which principle by nationality by law by which citezenship determined and aquired by nationality or ethnicity of one or both parents. The Philippines uses the principle of jus sanguinis.
The answer to the airplane puzzle? The baby is american.Indonesian citezenship law states that child born in Indonesian terretory whose parent citezenship status unknown is indonesian .The mother is american , therefore the prevailing law states that the child is american.
But what if the plane? which is philippine flag carrier was international airspace and the american mother gave birth.
All aircraft around the world have nationalities based on the country where they are regisred. For a Philippine flight in international airspace. The law that apply are the law of the philippines but if the child born on the flight the child will bear the nationality of the country where the aircraft is facing.
For example american mother gave birth on a Philippine flagged aircraft facing saudi arabia, then the child is saudi.
Its really difficult to become accidentally filipino because our citezenship are quite specific of circumtances of whos gets to be filipino .,no matter where you were born in the world .