February 26, 2006
What I learned on FlyerTalk today…
AA FA stop pax demands to see passport
Contrary to popular perception, embassies are still the sovereign territory of the country in which they are located, not of the country whose diplomatic mission is housed there. That is why an office building can host an embassy on some floors and, say, a bank on others.
The reason for the perception is that the Vienna Conventions mean that the local government foreswears the right to enter an embassy. However, it does not change sovereign territory.
Say, for example, that a baby is born in the U.S. Embassy to Ickystan. That child does not gain U.S. citizenship by virtue of birth in the U.S.- it was born in Ickystan.
I did not know that.
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