Citizenship Act (Cap 112)

Citizenship by Migration Citizenship by migration is governed under section 6 of the Citizenship Act.

This includes the Pakistan Citizenship Act (1951).

The conditions of and procedure for the acquisition, resumption and loss of Estonian citizenship are regulated by the Citizenship Act.

Citizenship by Birth It is stated in the Pakistan Citizenship Act that Every person born in Pakistan after the commencement of the Act shall be a citizen of Pakistan by birth.

Constitutional and Legal Provisions The Pakistan Citizenship Act (Act No.II of 1951) was enacted on April 13, 1951 to supersede the Government of India Act, 1935.

The Citizenship Act had also been amended so that Egyptian women married to foreigners had the same rights as did men to transmit Egyptian citizenship to their children.

The State party refers to sections 21 and 25 of the Fijian Citizenship Act (Amendment) Decree 2000.

It is not known if the Citizenship Office did advise applicants following the Ombudsman's recommendation or if any applicants applied to the Supreme Court for equal rights under the Citizenship Act.

(1999b). Public Report on the Illegal and Unconstitutional Discrimination in the Citizenship Act. Port Vila Office of the Ombudsman.

In January 1983, when the British Nationality Act came into force, St. Helenians had their citizenship rights taken away.

For the authors, the choice imposed on the family by the combined operation of the Citizenship Act and the Migration Act violates articles 23 and 24 of the Covenant.

On 20 March 2004 the provisions amending the Citizenship Act entered into force, the aim of which was to expedite the process of applying for citizenship and to reduce the number of stateless persons.

The Pakistan Citizenship Act 1951 was amended to give children of Pakistani women married to foreigners the right to Pakistani nationality.

Following the entry into force of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Act of May 2002, which provides British citizenship to the people of the United Kingdom's Overseas Territories, St. Helenians regained their right to British citizenship.

The District Office denied the application on the ground that Eugen Czernin had not retained Czech citizenship after being deprived of it, in accordance with the Citizenship Act of 1993, which stipulates that a decision in favour of the plaintiff requires, as a prerequisite, the favourable conclusion of a citizenship procedure.

Ms. Cinar (Turkey) said that the 2002 revision of both the Citizenship Act and article 66 of the Constitution had done away with discriminatory provisions.

Citizenship rights

Citizenship Russian

The Citizenship Act of 1951 was amended in 2000 to enable women of Pakistani descent to claim Pakistani nationality for their children born to foreign husbands.

Either parent's citizenship carries equal weight relating to children's citizenship acquired at birth.

Citizenship is acquired

Under this treaty, the author automatically lost his Czechoslovak citizenship upon acquiring United States citizenship.

Is Citizenship a Right?

He has Ukrainian citizenship.

that their previous citizenship is terminated once the citizenship is obtained, unless a bilateral agreement states otherwise.

The Ethics of Citizenship Tests

It doesn't accept full citizenship.

Subject matter Retention of citizenship

1.13 In regard to Jordan's legislative provisions regarding the granting of citizenship, the Jordanian Nationality Act No. 6 of 1954 regulates and governs the subject as far as foreigners are concerned.

BiH Law on Citizenship of BiH

In the field of migration citizenship

The Law on citizenship prescribes that the marital partner of a BiH citizen can obtain citizenship under the following conditions

The British Overseas Territories Act, which came into force in 2002, grants the right to full British citizenship to all inhabitants of the Territories and formally abolishes the terms colony and dependent territory .

Ms. Heather Latu (Samoa) said the new Citizenship Act of 2004 gave both men and women equal rights with regard to obtaining or transmitting Samoan nationality, whether through marriage, birth, descent or naturalization.

9.5 The provisions of Chapter 3 of the Constitution were effected through the Citizenship Act (Cap 112) but this piece of legislation has been found to be discriminatory contrary to Article 1 of CEDAW.

Substantive issues Discrimination on grounds of citizenship

g) Article 30, in the case of the husband who loses his Indonesian citizenship as a result of marriage, his wife loses her Indonesian citizenship as well. Unless she has rejected his citizenship, she becomes stateless.

The wife or husband retains their original citizenship regardless of the fact that the other partner applies for or loses Vietnamese citizenship.

The time of processing applications for Estonian citizenship in the Citizenship and Migration Board was reduced from 6 months to 3 months.

As the provisions of this article imply, the law on citizenship does not establish any impediments to citizenship that are based on sex.

This is Abdulemam s reflection on losing his citizenship.

In 2002, 1,553 people gave up Vietnamese citizenship.

Doing so would not affect Vanessa's Australian citizenship.

The Czech Republic and Adam v. The Czech Republic, where it found that the requirement of citizenship in Act 87 1991 was unreasonable, and that its effects constituted a violation of article 26 of the Covenant.