High court judges have ruled that the home secretary’s decision to reject applications from the wife and two adult children of an Egyptian Islamist, a potential extremist, unlawful. Judges said that the home secretary acted unlawfully because ‘ parliament had Read More …
In wake of Paris attacks, fear of terrorism has been deployed in an attempt to block ius soli reform in the Italian Senate: “Forza Italia’s Maurizio Gasparri, Senate deputy speaker, said changes to citizenship rules sent the “wrong message in Read More …
Over the last three years, over 18,000 stateless people have been granted nationality in Thailand. This has reduced the overall number of stateless in the country to 443,862. The UNHCR has highlighted that stateless cannot fully enjoy their human rights, Read More …
An increasing number of applicants are failing Australia’s citizenship test. In 2009, the Department of Immigration and Border protection has increased the passing mark from 60 to 73 per cent in 2009. Read more at ABC News.
On 9 November, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of appeals declined to lift an injunction that prevents the implementation of Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) programme and the expansion of the already- existing Deferred Read More …
A number of countries in Africa practice the exchange between cash and passports. These passports are commonly used to avoid extradition, as countries are not obliged to surrender their own nationals. Le Monde writes that the Chinese government is looking Read More …
On 28 October, the Regulator of the Individual Investor Programme in Malta confirmed that a pecuniary contribution of €650,000, a property lease or purchase agreement and the holding of a maximum investment – among other obligations – suffice to prove Read More …
On 22 October, the United Kingdom (UK) parliament adopted a statutory instrument terminating the possibility for EEA nationals and their family members with permanent residence in the UK to apply directly for British citizenship. Once the new legislation takes effect, Read More …
On 13 October 2015, the Italian lower parliamentary chamber approved a draft law facilitating citizenship acquisition by children of long-term resident third country nationals. If passed by the upper legislative chamber, the law ill facilitate the acquisition of Italian citizenship both for children born in Italy to parents in possession of an EU long term residence permit, and for children who arrived in Italy before the age of twelve, have resided in Italy for at least five years, and completed school in this country.
Read the analysis of Giovanna Zincone, EUDO citizenship expert in La Stampa (in Italian).
In her WSJ blog published on 16 October 2015, Naomi Powell referred to European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship (EUDO) research on electoral rights to explore how countries include or exclude expatriates from electoral processes in the mobile and interconnected Read More …
