Kristy A. Belton Table 4 Special registration: children of deceased citizens Procedure Born abroad Residency Knowledge English Antigua & Barbuda Automatic Y30 N N N Bahamas Automatic Y31 N N N Barbados Automatic 32 Y N N N Belize Automatic N N N N Dominica Registration N Y (3 years) N Y 33 of Oath Grenada Automatic Y N N N Guyana Automatic N N N N Automatic N N N N Jamaica St. Kitts & Nevis 34 Automatic N N N N St. Lucia Automatic N N N N St. Vincent & the Grenadines Automatic N N N N Trinidad & Tobago Automatic Y N N N 30 Note that this provision holds for children born outside of the country (Constitution Article 113(b-c)) to a father who would have become a citizen upon Independence. However, the Constitution does not explicitly note the child must be born outside of the country in Article 118. Article 118 states that “the national status” of a child born to a deceased father is whatever the father’s national status was at the time of the father’s death. 31 Note that this provision holds for children born outside of the country (Constitution Article 3(2)) to a father who would have become a citizen upon Independence, but the Constitution does not explicitly state the child must be born outside of the country in Article 14(3). Article 14 states that “the national status” of a child born to a deceased father is whatever the father’s national status was at the time of the father’s death. 32 Note that this provision holds for children born outside of the country (Constitution Article 2(2)) to a father who would have become a citizen upon Independence, but the Constitution does not explicitly state the child must be born outside of the country in Article 10(4). Article 10(4) states that “the national status” of a child born to a deceased father is whatever the father’s national status was at the time of the father’s death. 33 Note that this provision holds for children born outside of the country (Constitution Article 94(3)) to a mother or a father who would have become a citizen upon Independence, but the Constitution does not explicitly state the child must be born outside of the country in Article 100(4). Article 100(4) states that “the national status” of a child born to a deceased father is whatever the father’s national status was at the time of the father’s death. Note that the interpretive article only refers to the national status of the father and not of the mother, and the amended 2016 Constitution does not alter the 1973 Constitution in this regard. 34 Out of all the countries, St. Kitts and Nevis has the most varied provisions for citizenship acquisition for the spouses and children of deceased citizens, although St. Lucia also has many distinctions. See the GLOBALCIT database for further differences. RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-Comp. 2020/3 - © 2020 Authors 11