Deported to the Wrong Country...

**Red Harvest** · 11-24-2005, 07:48

Felt sorry for him until I got to the criminal record part of it. It seems right to deport him, but why not to France?

**bmolsson** · 11-24-2005, 07:52

Doesn't he automaticall get a refugee passport for UN or something ??

**BDC** · 11-24-2005, 17:34

Also he was born in France not Serbia... its all Europe.

Would you rather be stateless in Serbia or France right now...

**Red Harvest** · 11-24-2005, 17:42

Originally Posted by BDC

Would you rather be stateless in Serbia or France right now...

Tough question...did the French finally get the riots under control? Of course, he would probably do better in France in winter, as he could warm himself beside a burning car.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 11-24-2005, 18:54

Originally Posted by Red Harvest

Of course, he would probably do better in France in winter, as he could warm himself beside a burning car.

Yep. And not a snowball's chance in hell he'd get deported here, no matter how impressive his criminal record.

**KukriKhan** · 11-24-2005, 19:05

If he could somehow travel to France, and produce a French birth certificate, would he be entitled to French citizenship?

Stated another way: Does being born in France automatically confer citizenship?

**Louis VI the Fat** · 11-24-2005, 19:32

Hush, Kukri...

I'm not an expert, but If I'm correct nowadays in order for an appeal on the jus soli the parents need to have been residents in France for five years. Even if this were the case, he cannot now appeal for naturalization. As an adult, you need to be a resident of France and be of 'good moral character'. Neither applies.

Mr Jovicic arrived in Australia from France with his Serbian-born parents in 1968 when he was just two.

His parents could've been anything from tourists to settled immigrants. I see no reason to consider a Serbian-Australian French just because he spend two years of his early childhood in France in the 1960's, to be quite honest.