My fathers American My Mom was also born in America But my Mothers Mom was born in the Bahamas

Question

Does this makes me Bahamian??

Lol.. I really always tell people Im plain old American

Answer 1

werid its the same thing with my family except its my grandpa that was born in the Bahamas i asked the same thing

Answer 2

Yi Ming was Chinese and went to college in Pakistan where he met a beautiful Russian woman. They married during his 3rd year of studies and they gave birth to a child before they left the country. Then they went to New Zealand and had another child. Then they went to France and had a third child.

Question: Is it your place of birth that matters, even if you left the country before your first birthday and never returned? Or does it matter what your parents' heritage was? Or does it matter where you were raised, even if you aren't eligible for natural citizenship and have to wait 5 years to be naturalized?

In the case above, none of the children qualifies for any citizenship except Russian and Chinese. Only a handful of countries counts citizenship by place of birth. Others require that you're not only born there, but you have to petition for citizenship at the age of majority and continued residency.

In asking a question like yours, it needs some context. Are you just researching your heritage and trying to put it in context? Do you know how long your grandmother and her family lived in the Bahamas? It's not an island with an intact indigenous group. The Brits mixed freely and brought in slaves from both Africa and from other islands. It's far from homogenous. So there isn't an answer to your question until you research your roots and determine if your grandmother had more than a minor attachment to the island.

If you need context, look at the children of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones. They're born on Bermuda, but only one of their grandparents has any ties to the island. Their other three grandparents were Welsh and Russian-American. Do you dismiss the other 3/4ths of their heritage and only consider them Bermudan? Or do you look at the whole picture and consider the totality of their heritage? They carry American passports because of their father's American citizenship. Even though one was born on Bermuda, they don't qualify for citizenship until adulthood. International law recognizes their nationality based on their father's citizenship, not place of birth.

When you get to the Caribbean, it's such a massive melting pot that no one looks at it from an American perspective and makes it a cut and dry heritage.

Answer 3

Your parents were born in America.  They would be considered American.  Were you also born in America?

Then you would be American also, with some Bahamian roots.