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Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth. [1] The definition of naturalization by the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations excludes citizenship that is automatically acquired (e.g. at birth) or is acquired by declaration.
A citizenship test is an examination, written or oral, required to achieve citizenship in a country. It can be a follow up to fulfilling other requirements such as spending a certain amount of time in the country to qualify for applying for citizenship. [1] Some North American countries where they exist are the United States and Canada.
Some countries (such as France) grant their expatriate citizens unlimited voting rights, identical to those of citizens living in their home country. [2] Other countries allow expatriate citizens to vote only for a certain number of years after leaving the country, after which they are no longer eligible to vote (e.g. 25 years for Germany, except if you can show that you are still affected by ...
Since becoming a citizen, I have participated in all local elections. In Argentina, voting is mandatory, and so I take the responsibility seriously. For the first time, I will vote for a US ...
Many countries (United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Canada) allow citizenship by marriage only if the foreign spouse is a permanent resident of the country in which citizenship is sought; others (Switzerland, Luxembourg) allow foreign spouses of expatriate citizens to obtain citizenship after a certain period of marriage, and sometimes also ...
be a Muslim citizen of Afghanistan, born of Afghan parents; not be a citizen of another country; be at least 26 years old when declaring candidacy; not have been convicted of crimes against humanity, a criminal act or deprived of civil rights by court; not have previously served more than two terms as president.
Imagine getting free money until the year 2019. This isn’t a hypothetical for some lucky citizens in Finland who are getting exactly that. One country is paying its citizens a guaranteed monthly ...
The latter held that nationality and citizenship are two completely different individual conditions; that nationality is a permanent state of individuals that does not undergo any alteration whatever the point of the earth they inhabit, and citizenship is, on the contrary, variable and alters with the different domiciles that men acquire in the ...