Kristy A. Belton Table 1 Citizenship acquisition by foundlings and stateless children Antigua and Barbuda Foundlings Stateless at birth n.a. Registration (entitlement) Bahamas n.a. n.a. Barbados Automatic Registration (entitlement) Belize Automatic n.a. Dominica n.a. n.a. Grenada Automatic n.a. Jamaica n.a. n.a. Guyana Automatic Registration St. Kitts and Nevis Automatic Registration (entitlement) Registration (discretionary) Registration11 St. Vincent and the Grenadines n.a. n.a. Trinidad and Tobago n.a. n.a. St. Lucia (discretionary) Dominica is the only country that allows for children who are born on an unregistered ship in Dominican waters, or in an unregistered aircraft in Dominican airspace, to automatically acquire citizenship at birth. 3.2 Acquisition of citizenship after birth Various provisions exist for citizenship acquisition after birth in the Anglophone Caribbean. These include naturalisation, registration for relatives, special provisions for Commonwealth citizens, refugees and stateless persons, as well as CBI programmes in a few countries. In several cases, as noted below, special registration provisions may be gender discriminatory, favouring male citizens over female citizens in citizenship extension. 11 Note that birth on the territory is not necessary, but the individual must be a minor. RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-Comp. 2020/3 - © 2020 Authors 5