Descent From An Icelandic Parent
A person acquires Icelandic citizenship at birth if:
- the mother is an Icelandic citizen; or
- the father is an Icelandic citizen and married to the mother (except in cases where the couple were separated at the time the child was conceived).
Children born of a non-Icelandic mother and an unmarried Icelandic father may acquire Icelandic citizenship:
- if the child is born in Iceland and the father is deemed the "father" for the purposes of the (Icelandic) Children Act.
- if the child is born outside Iceland and an application for citizenship is made before it turns 18
Prior to 1 July 1982, acquisition of Icelandic citizenship from an Icelandic mother was restricted. Those born to an Icelandic mother and a foreign father between 1 July 1964 and 30 June 1982 may be permitted to apply for Icelandic citizenship by declaration.
Read more about this topic: Icelandic Nationality Law
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“Genealogy. An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
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A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;”
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—Anonymous Parent of An Eight-Year-Old. As quoted in Between Generations by Ellen Galinsky, ch. 4 (1981)