Nationality Law

Nationality law

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Article 8 provides that any person who applies for naturalisation as a Chinese national shall acquire Chinese nationality upon approval of his application. A person whose application for naturalisation as a Chinese national has been approved shall not retain foreign nationality.

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New Netherlands Nationality Act

ONPF National Institute for Monitoring the Advancement of Women

Laws on nationality and immigration

20. Firstly, the Commission needed to find a balance between two legislative approaches the granting of nationality on the basis of territorial origin, or on the basis of parental origin.

17. The premise of the Commission s work on the nationality of persons and the succession of States had been that nationality was governed by national law, international private and comparative law and international law.

When the nationality legislation was first enacted, the chief concern of its drafters had been to ensure that every child had a nationality and that no one was left stateless.

In the Constitutional law on citizenship, Chapter IV Nationality of children, nationality of parents, tutors and guardians and nationality of incompetent persons notes that the nationality of children under the age of 14 is the same as that of the parents. The nationality of children 14 18 years old may change if they consent to it.

Prior into the entry into force of the 1991 Constitution, Colombian nationality was lost on the acquisition of the nationality of another country.

It was stressed that States should avoid adopting laws which increased the risk of dual nationality, multiple nationality or statelessness.

(e) Nationalities that are not normally allowed to visit France

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Also calls upon all States to adopt and implement nationality legislation with a view to preventing and reducing statelessness, consistent with fundamental principles of international law, in particular by preventing arbitrary deprivation of nationality

Also calls upon all States to adopt and implement nationality legislation with a view to preventing and reducing statelessness, consistent with fundamental principles of international law, in particular by preventing arbitrary deprivation of nationality

The status of the alien female spouse is therefore protected.

In the code on nationality it was stipulated that women could transmit their nationality to their children with the husband apos s consent.

Matters pertaining to the acquisition of nationality are governed by the law on nationality of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the UN Convention on the Nationality of a Married Woman, to which Kazakhstan acceded in 1999.

35. The amendment of the Nationality Code is in contradiction with the Government apos s integration policy because it eliminates the automatic right to French nationality of children of foreigners who are born in France.

Furthermore, article 20 of the Constitution stipulates that no national may be deprived of his or her nationality and that Nicaraguan nationality is not lost when a person acquires a different nationality.

Non Chinese permanent residents who wish to acquire Chinese nationality in order to stand for election to the Legislative Council may do so in accordance with the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China (NLPRC)8 and the Explanations of some questions by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress concerning the implementation of the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region'.

Article 6 of Law No. 149 (Nationality Act of 1992) provides that Nicaraguans, whether male or female, who are married to aliens shall retain their nationality even if they acquire the nationality of their spouse in accordance with the law of the spouse's country, provided that they do not expressly renounce their Nicaraguan nationality.

Having said that, under that law, non Thai national men who are married to Thai women can request a change to Thai nationality.

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The population of the Niger is estimated at some 10 million inhabitants.Women make up 50.3 per cent of the population.

Jordanian law permits dual nationality.

International law was aimed at reducing conflict of nationalities, where a person had several nationalities or none at all, in order to better protect human rights, particularly the right to a nationality.

The Netherlands Nationality Act also gives minor children improved status in the granting of Dutch nationality by means of naturalisation.

Four volumes containing nationality laws and regulations as well as relevant constitutional provisions have already been published.

that of the State against which he is acting, while he is being paid by the State of his other nationality or by a third party?

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

Children born to a marriage in which the parents hold different citizenships obtain that citizenship upon which the parents agree, and, if the laws of the country of residence or origin of the parents permit it, children can have both citizenships.

The Nationality Law was passed in August 1996 by the National Assembly.

(a) Nationalities that do not have any difficulty in residing in France

Nationality requirements for Legislative Council candidates

Article 9 Nationalities law and aliens law

(c) Nationalities that may visit France without a visa but cannot reside in France

Multiple nationality and claim against a State of nationality

Attribution of the nationality of the successor State and withdrawal of the nationality of the predecessor State

When it comes to the nationality of minors, Guinean law reflects the twin principles of determination of nationality by filiation and by place of birth, within the meaning of international law and of comparative law.

In addition, the Constitution stipulates that no Colombian by birth may be deprived of his or her nationality, so that he or she can lose it only by renunciation, and that, even then, Colombian nationality may be recovered in accordance with the law.

One academic study, focusing on Law No. 62 of 1958 on Citizenship, has come up with a recommendation that Indonesian women who marry foreigners should have the right to determine the citizenship of their children. The present Citizenship Law stipulates that children born of a legal marriage between an Indonesian woman and a foreigner should automatically follow the citizenship of the father.