By Alan Desmond, PhD student at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Ireland. In a report on citizenship acquisition in Ireland issued last year, the Immigrant Council of Ireland highlighted a number of issues which make the process of Read More …
Sephardic Jews, who already benefited from a preferential naturalization procedure in Spain, will now be granted Spanish citizenship automatically. Read the article of the New York Times and the article in eSefarad (in Spanish)..
In recent years states across the world have boosted their legal and institutional capacity to deport noncitizens residing on their territory, including failed asylum seekers, “illegal” migrants, and convicted criminals. Scholars have analyzed this development primarily through the lens of Read More …
From the perspective of individual citizens, the possession of several nationalities offers a number of advantages. For the nation-state, however, the situation is different: behind every further citizenship there is the legislation of another sovereign country in which the former Read More …
by EUDO Citizenship expert Guido Tintori According to the latest available data, between 1998 and 2010, 1,003,403 individuals got Italian citizenship by descent at Italian consulates abroad. 73.3 per cent (735,635) of the total new Italian/EU passports were released in Read More …
On 20 November 2012, the European Web Site on Integration published a Special Feature on Access to Nationality. The dossier uses EUDO CITIZENSHIP and refers often to the ACIT project.
By Dimitris Christopoulos, EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert 20 November 2012 The facts According to press reports, on 13 November 2012 the Plenary Session of the Greek Council of State confirmed an earlier ruling by the Council’s 4th Chamber Read More …
by EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Szabolcs Pogonyi On November 12, the Hungarian Parliament amended the Act II of 2007 on the Entry and Stay of Third-Country Nationals. According to amended law, third country nationals who purchase at least 250,000 euros worth Read More …
From: Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union In 2010, 810 500 persons acquired the citizenship of a EU27 Member State. The highest number of citizenships were granted by the United Kingdom (195 000 persons), France (143 000), Spain Read More …
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities has adopted a new set of Recommendations on Integration Policies. This document is addressed to governments and other actors in politics and civil society. It contains several recommendations on citizenship policies with a Read More …
