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Puerto Rican citizenship and nationality. Puerto Rico is an island in the Caribbean region in which inhabitants were Spanish nationals from 1508 until the Spanish–American War in 1898, from which point they derived their nationality from United States law. Nationality is the legal means by which inhabitants acquire formal membership in a ...
Puerto Ricans have been granted three different types of U.S. citizenship over the years, but questions remain about their rights and equal treatment as citizens.
Everyone born in Puerto Rico and living in Puerto Rico became a citizen of the United States in 1917 — unless they chose not to do so. The 1941 declaration also says that everyone born in Puerto Rico after January 13th, 1941, is a citizen of the United States at birth.
The new Puerto Rican citizenship affirmed the inclusion of Puerto Rico within the U.S. global empire while simultaneously excluding Puerto Ricans from equal membership within the Anglo-American polity.
Puerto Rican citizenship does not exist independently of United States citizenship because Puerto Rico is not an independent sovereign nation. From 1899 to 1952, legislative acts declared most Puerto Rican residents and natives to be United States citizens.
In 1900, the territorial legislature passed the Political Code of Puerto Rico, which recognized as Puerto Rican citizens, US nationals permanently living on the island, and former Spanish nationals who had severed ties with Spain, in language identical to the Foraker Act.
These archives show that, while Congress enacted laws granting a native-born citizenship status to people born in Puerto Rico, U.S. law still describes Puerto Rico as an unincorporated...
Only 43 percent answered that Puerto Ricans were U.S. citizens. Today, being born in Puerto Rico is tantamount to being born in the United States. But it wasn’t always that way, and a lot...
The latter laws provide for the extension of four different types of citizenships, namely a Puerto Rican citizenship (1900-1934); individual naturalization (1906-1940); collective naturalization (1917-1940); and birthright or jus soli citizenship (1941 to the present).
Today, it is acknowledged that a Puerto Rican-born citizen automatically acquires American (birthright) citizenship. But is Puerto Rican citizenship exclusive from American citizenship?