Oliver May (omay@gmn.ulaval.ca)
Fri, 08 May 1998 10:12:54 -0400
HI Gang,
Actually, being born to US parents makes you a citizen as does being born
in the USA (I think). In the UK, if you were born to a British father
anywhere in the world, you have an automatic right to citizenship, however
if you were born to a British mother before 1980 you do not automatically
have the same right. So Spike would not necessarily have had a British
passport (we know he had an USA passport). Also he (we assume) was born in
the USA.
Having said all that, I suspect he would have been a permanent resident of
the UK, which would have allowed him to work anywhere in the UK, it was
more common back in the days when the USA forbade its citizens from having
two passports (duel nationality?).
>>Spike's mother is British so I don't think a visa would be a >>problem.
As she is British then I think that makes him a British >>citizen.
>I'm not sure how it works in Britain, but over here (States) it >matters
_where_ you're born, not who begat you. If Spike were >born in the States,
than he is an American. If he were born in >England, than I have no
idea...I always figured that Spike came >back to chill with his friends a
bit, eventually hooked up with >some chick (zoe, I don't think she deserves
a capital letter), than >realized all was wrong, and went packing back to
England to see >his soul mate.
>
>--Eavan "The to tell you the truth, this is the first I thought about
it"Cully
Eavan, I almost missed this because of all the PGML additions on the end of
your message, please delete them!
> HOW TO PROVE IT, PART 7
>proof by forward reference:
> Reference is usually to a forthcoming paper of the author,
> which is often not as forthcoming as at first.
>
>proof by semantic shift:
> Some of the standard but inconvenient definitions are changed
> for the statement of the result.
>
>proof by appeal to intuition:
> Cloud-shaped drawings frequently help here.
Crystal, I love your HHGttG quotes keep them up.
"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate." --
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Oliver
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