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Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishA woman, not being a Nauruan citizen, who is married to a Nauruan citizen or has been married to a man who was, throughout the subsistence of the marriage, a Nauruan citizen, is entitled, upon making application in such manner as is prescribed by law, to become a Nauruan citizen. (Art. 74)
Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishParliament may make provisions relating to citizenship including provision—
(a) for the acquisition of citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago by persons who are not or do not become citizens of Trinidad and Tobago by virtue of the provisions of this Chapter2;
(b) for depriving of his citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago any citizen of Trinidad and Tobago but only on the acquisition of citizenship of some other country in the case of a citizen by birth or descent; or
(c) for the renunciation by any person of his citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago. (Sec. 20)
Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishThe non-residential citizenship of Nepal may be so granted to a person who has acquired the citizenship of a foreign country, has resided in a country other than a member state of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, and who or whose father or mother, grandfather or grandmother was previously a citizen of Nepal by decent or birth but subsequently acquired the citizenship of the foreign country that such person may enjoy economic, social and cultural rights in accordance with the Federal law. (Art. 14)
- Nepaliविदेशी मुलुकको नागरिकता प्राप्त गरेको दक्षिण एशियाली क्षेत्रीय सहयोग संगठनको सदस्यराष्ट्र बाहेकका देशमा बसोबास गरेको साबिकमा वंशजको वा जन्मको आधारमा निज वा निजको बाबु वा आमा, बाजे वा बज्यै नेपालको नागरिक रही पछि विदेशी मुलुकको नागरिकता प्राप्त गरेको व्यक्तिलाई संघीय कानून बमोजिम आर्थिक, सामाजिक र सांस्कृतिक अधिकार उपभोग गर्न पाउने गरी नेपालको गैरआवासीय नागरिकता प्रदान गर्न सकिनेछ । (धारा १४)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English(1) A person born outside Barbados after 29th November 1966 shall become a citizen of Barbados at the date of his birth if at that date his father is a citizen of Barbados otherwise than by virtue of this section or section 2(2).
(2) Subject to subsection (1) and without derogating from, or in any way affecting, that subsection, a person born outside Barbados after 29th November 1966 shall become a citizen of Barbados at the date of his birth if at the date of the birth at least one of his parents is a citizen of Barbados who was born in Barbados. (Sec. 5)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English(1) Every person who immediately before the Independence Day possessed any of the qualifications specified in subsection (3) of the preceding section and who within the prescribed period has made, or been included in, an application to the Government for citizenship of Solomon Islands continuing the information specified in subsection (4) of the preceding section shall be registered as a citizen of Solomon Islands.
… (Sec. 21)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English1. A child born to citizens of the Republic of Armenia shall be a citizen of the Republic of Armenia.
2. Every child whose one parent is a citizen of the Republic of Armenia shall have the right to acquire citizenship of the Republic of Armenia.
3. Armenians by ethnicity shall have the right to acquire citizenship of the Republic of Armenia from the moment of establishing residence in the Republic Armenia.
4. Armenians by ethnicity shall acquire citizenship of the Republic of Armenia through a simplified procedure stipulated by law.
5. A citizen of the Republic of Armenia may not be deprived of citizenship. A citizen of the Republic of Armenia may not be deprived of the right to change citizenship.
6. The procedure of exercising the rights stipulated by this Article, the other grounds of acquiring citizenship of the Republic of Armenia, and the grounds of termination shall be stipulated by law.
7. The rights stipulated by Part 2-4 and by the second sentence of Part 5 of this Article may be restricted only by law with the aim of protecting state security, preventing or solving crimes, as well as protecting other public interests.
8. Citizens of the Republic of Armenia, while outside of the borders of the Republic of Armenia, shall be under the protection of the Republic of Armenia on the basis of international law. (Art. 47) - Armenian1. Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացիներից ծնված երեխան Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացի է:
2. Յուրաքանչյուր երեխա, որի ծնողներից մեկը Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացի է, ունի Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացիություն ձեռք բերելու իրավունք:
3. Ազգությամբ հայերը Հայաստանի Հանրապետությունում բնակություն հաստատելու պահից ունեն Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացիություն ձեռք բերելու իրավունք:
4. Ազգությամբ հայերը Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացիությունը ձեռք են բերում օրենքով սահմանված պարզեցված կարգով:
5. Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացին չի կարող զրկվել քաղաքացիությունից: Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացին չի կարող զրկվել քաղաքացիությունը փոխելու իրավունքից:
6. Սույն հոդվածով սահմանված իրավունքների իրականացման կարգը, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացիության ձեռքբերման այլ հիմքերը, ինչպես նաև դադարեցման հիմքերը սահմանվում են օրենքով:
7. Սույն հոդվածի 2-4-րդ մասերով, ինչպես նաև 5-րդ մասի 2-րդ նախադասությամբ սահմանված իրավունքները կարող են սահմանափակվել միայն օրենքով` պետական անվտանգության, հանցագործությունների կանխման կամ բացահայտման, ինչպես նաև այլ հանրային շահերի պաշտպանության նպատակով:
8. Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացիները Հայաստանի Հանրապետության սահմաններից դուրս, միջազգային իրավունքի հիման վրա, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության պաշտպանության ներքո են: (Հոդված 47)
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) Where a person has been deprived of his citizenship or his enrolment as a citizen has been cancelled under the provisions of this Part, the Government may, by order, deprive of his citizenship or, as the case may be, cancel the enrolment of any child of that person under the age of 21 years who has been registered or enrolled as a citizen under the provisions of this Constitution or the Singapore Citizenship Ordinance 1957 (Ord. 35 of 1957) and was so registered or enrolled as being the child of that person or of that person’s wife or husband.
(2) No person shall be deprived of his citizenship under clause (1) unless the Government is satisfied that it is not conducive to the public good that he should continue to be a citizen; and no person shall be deprived of his citizenship under clause (1) if the Government is satisfied that as a result of such deprivation he would not be a citizen of any country. (Art. 137)
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
The rules concerning[ the following] are of the domain of the law:
- Citizenship, …
- Nationality,
… (Art. 98) - French
Sont du domaine de la loi, les règles concernant:
- la citoyenneté, …
- la nationalité,
… (Art. 98)