"Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a member of a state. A person may have multiple citizenships and a person who does not have citizenship of any state is said to be stateless.Nationality is often used as a synonym for citizenship in English \u2013 notably in international law \u2013 although the term is sometimes understood as denoting a person's membership of a nation (a large ethnic group). In some countries, e.g."@en .