BY EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Oxana Shevel The case of four Crimean residents, including a well known film director Oleg Sentsov, who were arrested in Crimea in May of last year, and since then transferred to Russia and held in jail Read More …
The US Army announced it will expand its programme offering fast track access to citizenship for immigrants with special language or medical skills. The so-called Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest programme “seeks to increase to 3,000 enlistments this fiscal Read More …
Facilitated naturalisation for spouses of Swiss nationals used to be seen as the easy route to citizenship. However the integration assessment has become an onerous and intrusive procedure for some, with significant disparity in how the local authorities deal Read More …
Australian PM Tony Abbott has announced a push to toughen citizenship laws and tackle those inciting hatred in an attempt to target domestic extremists. Read the news report in BBC news and the commentary by Matthew Gibney in the Sidney Read More …
The number of EU citizens granted British citizenship has increased significantly over the past two years. Read the news report in the New Statesman.
Following the September 2014 Referendum on Independence where the minimum age for voting was lowered from 18 to 16, power is being transferred to Holyrood to legislate on this matter in future Scottish parliament elections. The House of Read More …
Naturalisation requirements around the world have generally become more consistent and streamlined over the years, but some idiosyncrasies have survived, says the Wall Street Journal. Read the article in the WSJ.
Earlier this month, the CJEU issued a judgment with profound implications on the social rights of dual Turkish/EU citizens. Read the legal analysis in EU LAW Analysis by Elspeth Guild, Kees Groenendijk and Steve Peers. Access the full Read More …
On 23 January, the French Constitutional Court issued a much awaited ruling on the deprivation of citizenship of a person convicted on terrorism charges. More specifically, the Court reviewed whether the rule according to which a person who has Read More …
On Wednesday 28 January 2015, the Estonian Parliament passed several amendments to the Nationality Act simplifying naturalisation procedures for several categories of applicants. Read the news report on Postimees (in English).
