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A native-born citizen of a country is a person who was born within the country's territory and has been legally recognized as that country's citizen from birth (jus soli).^{[citation needed]}

A person born outside a country, who gained citizenship of the country at birth through descent from a citizen, is a born citizen by jus sanguinis, not a native-born citizen nor a naturalized citizen.^{[citation needed]} A person who was born in a country that did not recognize him as its citizen at birth, but later naturalized as its citizen, is also not a native-born citizen.

In many countries (such as Japan), being native-born is not sufficient to confer citizenship. For example, Sadaharu Oh is not a Japanese citizen despite being born in Japan and having a Japanese mother.

In some countries native birth is a requirement for certain high offices, such as the head of state or head of government.^{[citation needed]}

The United States Constitution requires that the President be a "natural born citizen". Whether natural born U.S. citizenship automatically implies native birth on U.S. territory, has never been determined definitively by a U.S. court. The first revision of the U.S. Naturalization Act however demonstrates the opinion of Congress in 1795 that citizens of the United States born abroad were not considered natural born.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• Citizenship
• Nationality
• Natural-born citizen, a similar but distinct concept