Being born in Japan does not automatically confer citizenship.

Women cannot confer citizenship to children born to a non-Saudi Arabian father.

A Civil Rights Act, conferring full citizenship upon the former slaves, was passed in 1866.

Nevertheless, the emperor could confer citizenship, either on individuals or on whole communities, as in the establishment of a new colony.

Marriage subsequent to the birth is normally enough to confer British citizenship from that point.

Mere birth on Andorran soil does not confer citizenship.

"I am very happy to confer on you citizenship as New Yorkers," he said.

In early 1951 they were conferred citizenship of Sri Lanka.

Birth within the territory of Ukraine does not automatically confer citizenship.

On his seventieth birthday the city of Vienna conferred honorary citizenship upon him.