The Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion has requested that The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) prioritises processing applications for Norwegian citizenship from former Norwegian citizens and/or persons who have been issued Norwegian passports although they in fact were Read More …
Read the news reports in the Globalpost.com and the Time.
Read the news report in Today’s Zaman.
Read the news report in YLE. Read the news item published on 22 May 2013 on the Russian law making military service mandatory regardless of prior service in foreign army.
The EC has published a policy review document on ‘Co-creating European Union Citizenship’. The document draws on the key research findings of fifteen EU-funded Social Sciences and Humanities research projects that have contributed to the understanding of the genesis and Read More …
Read a review by Mediendienst Integration on naturalisations in Germany five years after the introduction of the federal naturalisation test (in German language).
Geographers have a long-standing interest in citizenship as the link between political and territorial membership. Yet, even when key political processes associated with citizenship, such as voting or lobbying government institutions are carried out from beyond the territory there is Read More …
Read the news report in The Independent.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls continues to work on his promise to return naturalisation to its traditional place as a means for integration into the French Republic. The Minister’s second set of guidelines try to undo the damage done in Read More …
Citizenship laws often contain provisions regarding preferential acquisition of citizenship by certain categories of foreigners, such as provisions that allow for the possibility to acquire citizenship without the obligation to reside in the country. The practice of external acquisition of Read More …
