Access to citizenship

Either parent's citizenship carries equal weight relating to children's citizenship acquired at birth.

Citizenship by Migration Citizenship by migration is governed under section 6 of the Citizenship Act.

Are they entitled to claim citizenship?

Citizenship rights

Citizenship is acquired

Under this treaty, the author automatically lost his Czechoslovak citizenship upon acquiring United States citizenship.

The time of processing applications for Estonian citizenship in the Citizenship and Migration Board was reduced from 6 months to 3 months.

Is Citizenship a Right?

As the provisions of this article imply, the law on citizenship does not establish any impediments to citizenship that are based on sex.

4.6 According to the State party, the author had the opportunity to acquire Czech citizenship in 1990 and 1991 he deprived himself of the opportunity to meet the citizenship requirement during the period open for restitution claims, by applying for citizenship only in 1992.

The Citizenship Act had also been amended so that Egyptian women married to foreigners had the same rights as did men to transmit Egyptian citizenship to their children.

The Ethics of Citizenship Tests

Subject matter Retention of citizenship

The law gives women equal rights with men regarding the citizenship of their children and does not establish any impediments to citizenship based on sex.

In response to the Committee's questions concerning citizenship, she noted that, under Latvia's Citizenship Law, all those permanently resident in Latvia for at least five years could acquire Latvian citizenship through naturalization, and that neither the marriage of a Latvian citizen to an alien or stateless person, nor the dissolution of such a marriage, affected the citizenship rights of the citizen concerned.

The Law on citizenship prescribes that the marital partner of a BiH citizen can obtain citizenship under the following conditions

The conditions of and procedure for the acquisition, resumption and loss of Estonian citizenship are regulated by the Citizenship Act.

BiH Law on Citizenship of BiH

In the field of migration citizenship

that their previous citizenship is terminated once the citizenship is obtained, unless a bilateral agreement states otherwise. The termination of previous citizenship is not requested if that is not permitted or cannot be reasonably requested.

Reduce statelessness, in particular statelessness among children, by, for example, encouraging their parents to apply for citizenship on their behalf and allowing both parents to transmit their citizenship to their children

MELBOURNE Should your government be able to take away your citizenship?

During the period 2000 2003, the Vietnamese State has accepted 12,818 cases giving up Vietnamese citizenship to attain foreign citizenship, including 73 people currently living in Viet Nam.

One academic study, focusing on Law No. 62 of 1958 on Citizenship, has come up with a recommendation that Indonesian women who marry foreigners should have the right to determine the citizenship of their children. The present Citizenship Law stipulates that children born of a legal marriage between an Indonesian woman and a foreigner should automatically follow the citizenship of the father.

The wife or husband retains their original citizenship regardless of the fact that the other partner applies for or loses Vietnamese citizenship.

Because democracy depends on an informed citizenship.

Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission, A.J.

Substantive issues Discrimination on grounds of citizenship

This includes the Pakistan Citizenship Act (1951).

11. Underlines the right of migrants to return to their country of citizenship

e) Article 24 stipulates that a woman with foreign citizenship who weds an Indonesian man may acquire Indonesian citizenship by a declaration to this effect before an Indonesian Official or State Representative, except that the acquisition of this citizenship would bestow bi nationality on the individual.

Would they have to be prohibited from allowing transmission of such citizenship ?

He is concerned that the 1982 Citizenship Law, which recognizes the right to nationality for those defined as indigenous, excludes the Rohingya minority from citizenship, leaving them de facto stateless.

The rules and conditions for the acquisition or loss of citizenship are specified in the constitutional law of 1995 on Republic of Tajikistan citizenship.

Children with Vietnamese mothers, and non citizenship or unidentified fathers, are granted Vietnamese citizenship, regardless of their place of birth within or outside Vietnam.

In 2002, 1,553 people gave up Vietnamese citizenship.

Doing so would not affect Vanessa's Australian citizenship.

On 20 March 2004 the provisions amending the Citizenship Act entered into force, the aim of which was to expedite the process of applying for citizenship and to reduce the number of stateless persons.

It's about helping people to build lives of dignity, stability, economic autonomy, citizenship.

A foreign woman who contracts matrimony to a Mozambican can acquire Mozambican citizenship.

There may be a need for a fast track procedure to claim citizenship.

Barriers to the acquisition of citizenship for members of minorities should be reduced.

Apart from BiH citizenship, there also exists entity citizenship, so a citizen of a certain entity is automatically also a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

If both parents or one parent acquires Republic of Tajikistan citizenship or if they lose it, then the citizenship of the children is also terminated.