Discuss (d) Third- country resettlement

Nationality is the legal bond between an individual and a state — the status by which the individual is that state's national (citizen): owing allegiance, entitled to protection. Its classic judicial statement — the Nottebohm case (ICJ, 1955): nationality is "a legal bond having as itsbasis a social fact of attachment, a genuine connection of existence, interests and sentiments" — the genuine link doctrine (Nottebohm's Liechtenstein citizenship failing the test against Guatemala: a grant to a German long resident in Guatemala conferred no effective nationality to exercise). The Hague Convention on Certain Questions relating to the Conflict ofNationality Laws (1930) supplies the frame: each state determines its nationals under its own law — subject to international limits (the treaties, the growing prohibition of discrimination, and the genuine-link discipline for invoking nationality internationally).Importance (the list that answers "why does nationality matter in international law?"):1. Diplomatic protection's key (Unit 7 — only nationals may be protected; the nationality-of- claims rule);2. Personal jurisdiction's basis (Unit 8 — the state's jurisdiction over its nationals everywhere);3. The individual's package of rights: residence, suffrage, public employment, property, protection abroad (the Nottebohm complement: allegiance and protection);4. Political rights of the state: the population as the state's human base (Montevideo's permanent population);5. Conflict avoidance: nationality's private-international-law function (determining the personal statute — family, succession);6. Statelessness prevention: the status…