Wednesday, July 30, 2025

SIX COUNTRIES GRANTING automatic citizenship by birth for NIGERIA

Six countries granting automatic citizenship by birth for Nigerians 2025

Monday, warned that any visa applicant found to be travelling primarily to give birth in the U.S. to secure citizenship for their child will be denied entry.

The warning was issued in a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) via the official handle @USinNigeria.

The mission stressed that consular officers will deny visa applications if they suspect the applicant’s primary purpose of travel is to give birth in the United States.

“Using your visa to travel for the primary purpose of giving birth in the United States so that your child will have U.S. citizenship is not permitted. Consular officers will deny your visa application if they have reason to believe this is your intent,” the post stated, tagging it with hashtags #VisaWiseTravelSmart and #USVisa.

However, as US immigration policies become more strict, a number of countries still uphold unrestricted birthright citizenship, granting automatic nationality to anyone born on their soil, regardless of parental citizenship or legal status

Here are six countries welcoming citizen by birth for Nigerians

1. Canada

Canada grants automatic citizenship to any child born within its borders. While the child is immediately recognized as a citizen, foreign parents must go through a separate immigration process to gain citizenship, typically through family reunification.

Canada’s passport ranks among the top 10 most powerful in the world.

2. Mexico

Mexico maintains unrestricted birthright citizenship, excluding only children of foreign diplomats. All others born on Mexican territory are entitled to citizenship by law.

3. Brazil

In Brazil, all children born in the country are constitutionally guaranteed citizenship.

Parents are allowed to apply for residency, and can proceed to naturalization after just one year.

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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

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Google Pixel devices appear to be preparing icon theming using AI and custom styles

Ben Schoon | Jul 29 2025 - 6:05 am PT

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Through evidence spotted in the latest Android Canary release, it looks like Google is preparing a new Pixel feature that would let users theme their homescreen icons using AI as well as their own custom styles.

As it stands today, Google Pixel owners have a few choices for customizing the icons on their homescreen. You can use Google’s “Themed Icons” feature that will apply Material You color themes to icons, though only on supported apps. You can use third-party apps to make custom shortcuts on the homescreen (similar to how iPhone users themed their icons in the past). Or, the tried and true, you can download a third-party launcher and utilize a host of additional theming options, including a vast number of icon packs available in the Play Store.

Soon, though, it appears Google wants to add a few more options out of the box for Pixel owners.

In the latest Android Canary build, the folks over at Android Authority uncovered some tidbits about new icon styles coming to Google Pixel devices in the future. In particular, the “Style” section would call existing themed icons “Minimal,” and add new “AI icon” and “Create” options.

The strings regarding this say:

<string name=”app_icons_style”>Style</string>
<string name=”app_icons_style_default”>Default</string>
<string name=”app_icons_style_minimal”>Minimal</string>
<string name=”app_icons_style_extendible_theme”>AI icon</string>
<string name=”app_icons_style_create”>Create</string>

So, yeah, details are pretty light at the moment. That said, we can take a guess on a few details here. The “AI icon” theme is called an “extendible theme” in the string, implying that it uses AI to bring a theme beyond what’s already available. That might suggest this option could allow apps that don’t support Android’s dynamic icons to still be included in a theme, or perhaps expand the style beyond just colors.

“Create” is a bit more exciting here, as it implies a greater level of user control. What might that include? At the moment, your guess is as good as ours. I’m personally hoping it’s something in the realm of the “Effects” theming options now available for wallpapers. It’s also possible this could include changing icon shapes, as we saw some progress on that a while back.

What would you want to see?

As for when these features might debut, we really don’t know. Android Canary isn’t tied to any single version of Android, and seeing as these features can’t even be manually enabled behind the scenes, this could be something that’s a few months away, if not much longer.