If a state has the final authority to determine citizenship, this can result in some persons having dual nationalities and others being stateless. A child can be born stateless when two situations arise simultaneously—the state in which the child is born only recognizes the child as receiving the nationality of the parents, and the parents' home state only recognizes the nationality of the state where the child is born.From the information given above, it can be validly concluded that, in the case of a child born in a state other than his parents' home state,