[joylyn]

This really is an old story. In 1879 my grandmother was born in Norway of a Swedish mother and a Norwegian father. She was officially Swedish, not Norwegian.

[JWinNC]

That’s bizarre... so you could never set foot in a country and be a citizen?

Both countries would have to agree on the policy or it would be moot. Unless I’m missing something, Norway can’t determine who is a Swedish citizen and Sweden can’t determine who is a Norwegian citizen. The story does not make it clear... I bet she was born in Sweden.

jw

[muawiyah]

Even back in the days of the Kalmar Union when Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Nikel Oblast were all one country, the primary countries (Norway, Denmark and Sweden) maintained separate legal systems, laws and parliaments ~ they shared a king. I suspect their general approach to citizenship is pretty much like it was in the 1500s with some minor additions to deal with foreign immigrant families.

They're always forgetting to add Nikel to the list.