Between 2009 and 2014, 26,000 persons have acquired Luxembourgish citizenship, a sharp increase compared to earlier periods. Most naturalised citizens are in fact former citizens and their descendants residing in Belgium or France who ‘recovered’ their nationality in the wake Read More …
Malta has adopted a points system to allow citizenship applicants for the Individual Investor Program (IIP) to reduce the time they have to spend in Malta in order to be considered “effective residents” as per the program requirements, www.investinimmigration.com reports. Read Read More …
Thousands of people – continental Europeans in Britain as well as UK citizens abroad – are so alarmed at the potential impact of a British exit from the European Union on their lives that they are applying for a second Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP experts Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu (Bogazici University, Istanbul) and Aslı Okyay (European University Institute, Florence) Voting from abroad refers to “provisions and procedures which enable some or all electors of a country who are temporarily or permanently outside the Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Vesco Paskalev On 28 July the National Assembly approved a proposal of the President for referendum on the introduction of electronic voting in all elections. The referendum will be held along with the local Read More …
On July 20, 2015, in Frank v. Canada (Attorney General) (2015 ONCA 536, CANLII), the highest court of Ontario upheld the validity of a section of the Canada Elections Act that prohibits long-term Canadian expatriates from voting in federal elections. Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Luicy Pedroza Over the past weeks, the plight of Rohingya refugees has caught the eye of the international media (see, for instance, news reports in the New York Times and Guardian). They are emigrants from Myanmar Read More …
by EUDO citizenship expert Alberto Martín Pérez The Seventh final provision of the Law 19/2015, July 13th, regarding administrative reform measures in the fields of the Administration of Justice and the Civil Registry, recently passed, introduced a new regulation Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Ana Rita Gil On 22 June 2015 Portugal has amended its Nationality Act by Organic Law 8/2015. Under the amended law, the Public Prosecutor may oppose to a nationality acquisition by marriage or other Read More …
By Patrícia Jerónimo, University of Minho On 29 May 2015 the Portuguese parliament adopted an amendment to the Nationality Law, which grants citizenship to persons born abroad, if they are second-degree descendants of Portuguese citizens who have not lost Read More …
