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Every human being is born with certain unalienable rights. In the modern world order these rights vest with a state constitution. To avail these rights, one needs to have nationality and citizenship of that particular state. International Law though does not as such deal with the methods of acquiring or losing nationality, as a state may determine as to what type of people shall be entitles to citizenship, but still it holds influence over states in this regard.

INTERPRETATION
In the words of Fenwick; “Nationality is the bond that unites a person to a State, which gives him a claim to the protection of that state and which subject him to the obligations created by the laws of that state”.

It was held in the case of ‘Re Lynch’; “A man’s nationality is continuing legal relationship between the sovereign state on one hand and citizen on the other”.

• Nationality and International Law
• Nationality, Domicila, Citizenship and Principles
• Modes of Acquisition of Nationality
• Modes of Losing Nationality
• Statelessness