Croatia is one of many countries in the European Union to recognize jus sanguinis (the “right of blood”), which can be used to acquire citizenship by descent, as opposed to jus solis (the ...

Today, we take it for granted that the Philippines follows the principle of jus sanguinis (law of the blood) to determine citizenship, but in the first half of the 20th century, the principle of ...

New York City author Lisa Wixon always knew she had a path to EU citizenship through her maternal great-grandfather, who arrived in the United States in 1906 from Rijeka in western Croatia.