Tamara wrote: <Please look at the last paragraph carefully: "Just because your children were born in the South doesn't make them Southerners".>
While I was teaching we had a problem with the son of two of our teachers. They had four sons and been in Australia for a couple of years. The youngest of their sons was born while they were there. He was going on a trip with a group from the school in England to Italy and was going on a group passport as he didn't have one of his own - he'd come back to England from Australia on one of his parents' passports. He didn't go on the school trip because he couldn't be included on the group passport. As far as the authorities were concerned this was for British citizens and he wasn't - his birth certificate was issued in Australia so he was Australian.
It had never occurred to his parents that there might be a problem, and they did get his citizenship sorted out (think he might have dual citizenship), but not in time for that school trip.
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