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Citizenship and Nationality
- English1. A person born in The Bahamas after 9th July 1973 neither of whose parents is a citizen of The Bahamas shall be entitled, upon making application on his attaining the age of eighteen years or within twelve months thereafter in such manner as may be prescribed, to be registered as a citizen of The Bahamas:
Provided that if he is a citizen of some country other than The Bahamas he shall not be entitled to be registered as a citizen of The Bahamas under this Article unless he renounces his citizenship of that other country, takes the oath of allegiance and makes and registers such declaration of his intentions concerning residence as may be prescribed.
2. Any application for registration under this Article shall be subject to such exceptions or qualifications as may be prescribed in the interests of national security or public policy. (Art. 7)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English1. The State shall have exclusive competence over the following matters:
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2) Nationality,
… (Sec. 149) - Spanish1. El Estado tiene competencia exclusiva sobre las siguientes materias:
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2ª. Nacionalidad,
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Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishAll men and women born at any place within the territory of the Republic are natural citizens. Children of Uruguayan fathers or mothers are also natural citizens, wherever they may have been born, provided that they take up residence in the country and register themselves in the Civil Register. (Art. 74)
- SpanishCiudadanos naturales son todos los hombres y mujeres nacidos en cualquier punto del territorio de la República. Son también ciudadanos naturales los hijos de padre o madre orientales, cualquiera haya sido el lugar de su nacimiento, por el hecho de avecinarse en el país e inscribirse en el Registro Cívico. (Art. 74)
Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishThe federal government shall have exclusive authorities in the following matters:
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Fifth: Regulating issues of citizenship, naturalization, … (Art. 110) - Arabicتختص السلطات الاتحادية بالاختصاصات الحصرية الآتية:
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خامساً :ـ تنظيم امور الجنسية والتجنس
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Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishEvery person born in Belize on or after Independence Day shall become a citizen of Belize at the date of his birth:
Provided that a person shall not become a citizen of Belize by virtue of this section if at the time of his birth-
(a) neither of his parents is a citizen of Belize and his father or mother possesses such immunity from suit and legal process as is accorded to the envoy of a foreign sovereign power accredited to Belize; or
(b) his father or mother is a citizen of a country with which Belize is at war and the birth occurs in a place then under occupation by that country. (Sec. 24)
Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishAny person, other than a person of I-Kiribati descent, who—
a. has attained the age of eighteen years before Independence Day;
b. becomes a citizen of Kiribati by virtue of section 20 or 21 of this Constitution; and
c. is on Independence Day a national of some other country, shall cease to be a citizen of Kiribati at the expiry of a period of two years after Independence Day or such longer period as may be prescribed, unless before the expiry of that period he has renounced or lost his nationality of that other country or, if the law of that other country makes no provision for or does not permit him to renounce his nationality of that other country, made such a declaration as may be prescribed. (Sec. 24)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English
1. A person, both of whose parents are citizens of Bhutan, shall be a natural born citizen of Bhutan.
2. A person, domiciled in Bhutan on or before the Thirty-First of December Nineteen Hundred and Fifty Eight and whose name is registered in the official record of the Government of Bhutan shall be a citizen of Bhutan by registration.
3. A person who applies for citizenship by naturalization shall:
a. Have lawfully resided in Bhutan for at least fifteen years;
b. Not have any record of imprisonment for criminal offences within the country or outside;
c. Be able to speak and write Dzongkha;
d. Have a good knowledge of the culture, customs, traditions and history of Bhutan;
e. Have no record of having spoken or acted against the Tsawa-sum;
f. Renounce the citizenship, if any, of a foreign State on being conferred Bhutanese citizenship; and
g. Take a solemn Oath of Allegiance to the Constitution as may be prescribed.
4. The grant of citizenship by naturalization shall take effect by a Royal Kasho of the Druk Gyalpo.
5. If any citizen of Bhutan acquires the citizenship of a foreign State, his or her citizenship of Bhutan shall be terminated.
6. Subject to the provisions of this Article and the Citizenship Acts, Parliament shall, by law, regulate all other matters relating to citizenship. (Art. 6) - Dzongkha
༡) ཕ་མ་གཉིས་ཆ་ར་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཨིན་པའི་མི་འདི་ རང་བཞིན་སྐྱེས་ལུང་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཨིན།
༢) སྤྱི་ལོ་གཅིག་སྟོང་དགུ་བརྒྱ་ ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་བརྒྱད་ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པའི་ཚེས་སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གཅིག་གི་ཉིན་མར་ ཡང་ན་ དེའི་ཧེ་མ་ འབྲུག་ནང་ གཞིས་གནས་བཅགས་ཏེ་སྡོད་མི་ཨིན་པའི་ཁར་ འབྲུག་གཞུང་གི་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་འཛིན་ཐོའི་ནང་ མིང་ཐོ་བཀོད་ གྲུབ་པའི་མི་ངོ་འདི་ ཐོ་བཀོད་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཨིན།
༣) རང་སྦྱོར་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་དོན་ལུ་ཞུ་ཡིག་ཕུལ་བའི་མི་ངོ་གིས་འགྲུབ་དགོཔ་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ འབྲུག་ནང་འཁོད་ ཉུང་ཤོས་ལོ་ངོ་བཅོ་ལྔ་དེ་ཅིག་ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་གྱི་སྒོ་ལས་སྡོད་ཡོདཔ་དང་།
ཁ༽ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ག་ཏེ་ཨིན་རུང་ ཉེས་ཅན་གྱི་གནོད་འགེལ་ཅིག་ལུ་བརྟེན་ བཙོན་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་འཛིན་ཐོ་གང་ཡང་མེད་པ།
ག༽ རྫོང་ཁ་སླབ་ནི་དང་འབྲི་ཚུགས་པ།
ང་༽ འབྲུག་གི་ལམ་སྲོལ་དང་ ལུགས་སྲོལ་ སྔར་སྲོལ་ རྒྱལ་རབས་ཀྱི་ཤེས་བྱ་ལེགས་ཤོམ་ཡོད་པ།
ཅ༽ རྩ་བ་གསུམ་གྱི་རྒྱབ་འགལ་ལུ་གཏམ་གླེང་བ་ ཡང་ན་ བྱ་སྤྱོད་སྒྲིག་པའི་འཛིན་ཐོ་ མེད་པ།
ཆ༽ འབྲུག་གི་མི་ཁུངས་གནངམ་ད་ ཕྱིའི་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་གི་མི་ཁུངས་རེ་ཡོད་རུང་ སྤངས་ཏེ་བཞག་པ།
ཇ༽ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་ལུ་ དད་དམ་གཙང་མའི་དམ་བཅའ་ཆེད་དུ་བཀོད་པ་ལྟར་དུ་ཕུལ་བ།
༤) རང་སྦྱོར་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་འཐོབ་ནི་འདི་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་བཀའ་ཤོག་ཅིག་གནང་ཞིནམ་ལས་ ཆ་གནས་གྲུབ་ཨིན།
༥) གལ་སྲིད་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ག་ར་ཨིན་རུང་ ཕྱིའི་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་གི་མི་ཁུངས་ལེན་པ་ཡོད་ཚེ་ ཁོའམ་མོ་རའི་ འབྲུག་གི་ མི་ཁུངས་ཆ་མེད་གཏང་དགོ།
༦) རྩ་ཚན་འདིའི་དགོངས་དོན་ཚུ་དང་ མི་ཁུངས་འདོགས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་བཅའ་ཁྲིམས་ཚུ་ལས་མ་འགལ་བར་ མི་ཁུངས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་གནད་དོན་ཆ་མཉམ་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ཁྲིམས་ཐོག་ མཚམས་འཛིན་འབད་དགོ། ༼རྩ་ཚན་༦༽
Citizenship and Nationality
- English(1) Any citizen of or over the age of twenty-one years and of sound mind who is also or is about to become a citizen of another country may renounce his citizenship of the Federation by declaration registered by the Federal Government, and shall thereupon cease to be a citizen.
(2) A declaration made under this Article during any war in which the Federation is engaged shall not be registered except with the approval of the Federal Government.
(3) This Article applies to a woman under the age of twenty-one years who has been married as it applies to a person of or over that age. (Art. 23) - Malay(1) Mana-mana warganegara yang berumur dua puluh satu tahun atau lebih dan yang sempurna akal yang juga ialah seorang warganegara negara lain atau yang hampir menjadi seorang warganegara negara lain boleh melepaskan kewarganegaraannya bagi Persekutuan melalui akuan yang didaftarkan oleh Kerajaan Persekutuan, dan hendaklah sesudah itu terhenti menjadi warganegara.
(2) Akuan yang dibuat di bawah Perkara ini dalam masa apa-apa peperangan yang dalamnya Persekutuan terlibat tidaklah boleh didaftarkan kecuali dengan kelulusan Kerajaan Persekutuan.
(3) Perkara ini terpakai bagi seseorang perempuan yang di bawah umur dua puluh satu tahun yang telah berkahwin sebagaimana Perkara ini terpakai bagi seseorang yang berumur dua puluh satu tahun atau lebih. (Perkara 23)
Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishCitizenship is lost by act when [one] has renounced nationality, and its exercise may be suspended by virtue of a judicial decision in the cases that the law determines.
Those whose exercise of citizenship has been suspended can request its restoration.
... (Art. 98) - SpanishLa ciudadanía se pierde de hecho cuando se ha renunciado a la nacionalidad, y su ejercicio se puede suspender en virtud de decisión judicial en los casos que determine la ley.
Quienes hayan sido suspendidos en el ejercicio de la ciudadanía, podrán solicitar su rehabilitación.
... (Art. 98)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English
(1) Parliament may make provision for the acquisition of Nauruan citizenship by persons who are not otherwise eligible to become Nauruan citizens under the provisions of this Part.
(2) Parliament may make provision for depriving a person of his Nauruan citizenship being a person who has acquired the nationality of another country otherwise than by marriage.
(3) Parliament may make provision for depriving a person of his Nauruan citizenship being a person who is a Nauruan citizen otherwise than by reason of Article 71 or Article 72.
(4) Parliament may make provision for the renunciation by a person of his Nauruan citizenship. (Art. 75)