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Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishA person having political and legal relationship to the Republic of Azerbaijan as well as mutual rights and obligations is a citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan. A person born on the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan is a citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan. A person whose one parent is a citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan is a citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan. (Art. 52)
- AzerbaijaniAzərbaycan dövlətinə mənsub olan, onunla siyasi və hüquqi bağlılığı, habelə qarşılıqlı hüquq və vəzifələri olan şəxs Azərbaycan Respublikasının vətəndaşıdır. Azərbaycan Respublikasının ərazisində və ya Azərbaycan Respublikasının vətəndaşlarından doğulmuş şəxs Azərbaycan Respublikasının vətəndaşıdır. Valideynlərindən biri Azərbaycan Respublikasının vətəndaşı olan şəxs Azərbaycan Respublikasının vətəndaşıdır. (Maddə 52)
Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishKuwaiti nationality shall be determined by Law.
No relinquishment or withdrawal of nationality shall be permissible save within the limits of the Law.
(Art. 27) - Arabicالجنسية الكويتية يحددها القانون.
ولا يجوز إسقاط الجنسية أو سحبها إلا في حدود القانون.
(المادّة 27)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English1. The following shall fall within the exclusive competence of the supreme state authorities of Georgia:
a) legislation on … Georgian citizenship, … (Art. 7) - Georgian1. საქართველოს უმაღლეს სახელმწიფო ორგანოთა განსაკუთრებულ გამგებლობას მიეკუთვნება:
ა) კანონმდებლობა ... საქართველოს მოქალაქეობის, … (მუხლი 7)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English(1) Subject to Article 18, any married woman whose husband is a citizen is entitled, upon making application to the Federal Government, to be registered as a citizen if the marriage was subsisting and the husband a citizen at the beginning of October 1962, or if she satisfies the Federal Government—
(a) that she has resided in the Federation throughout the two years preceding the date of the application and intends to do so permanently; and
(b) that she is of good character.
(2) Subject to Article 18, the Federal Government may cause any person under the age of twenty-one years of whose parents one at least is (or was at death) a citizen to be registered as a citizen upon application made to the Federal Government by his parent or guardian.
(3) Subject to Article 18, a person under the age of twenty-one years who was born before the beginning of October 1962, and whose father is (or was at his death) a citizen and was also a citizen at the beginning of that month (if then alive), is entitled upon application made to the Federal Government by his parent or guardian, to be registered as a citizen if the Federal Government is satisfied that he is ordinarily resident in the Federation and is of good character.
(4) For the purposes of Clause (1) residence before Malaysia Day in the territories comprised in the States of Sabah and Sarawak shall be treated as residence in the Federation.
(5) The reference in Clause (1) to a married woman is a reference to a woman whose marriage has been registered in accordance with any written law in force in the Federation, including any such law in force before Merdeka Day, or with any written law in force before Malaysia Day in the territories comprised in the States of Sabah and Sarawak:
Provided that this Clause shall not apply where the woman applies to be registered as a citizen before the beginning of September 1965, or such later date as may be fixed by order of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, and is at the date of the application ordinarily resident in the States of Sabah and Sarawak. (Art. 15) - Malay(1) Tertakluk kepada Perkara 18, apabila permohonan dibuat kepada Kerajaan Persekutuan oleh mana-mana perempuan bersuami yang suaminya seorang warganegara, maka perempuan itu berhak didaftarkan sebagai warganegara jika perkahwinan itu masih wujud dan suaminya itu seorang warganegara pada permulaan bulan Oktober 1962, atau jika dia memuaskan hati Kerajaan Persekutuan—
(a) bahawa dia telah bermastautin di Persekutuan sepanjang tempoh dua tahun sebelum tarikh permohonan itu dan berniat hendak berbuat demikian secara tetap; dan
(b) bahawa dia berkelakuan baik.
(2) Tertakluk kepada Perkara 18, apabila permohonan dibuat kepada Kerajaan Persekutuan oleh ibu atau bapa atau penjaga mana-mana orang yang di bawah umur dua puluh satu tahun, maka Kerajaan Persekutuan boleh menyebabkan orang itu didaftarkan sebagai warganegara jika sekurang-kurangnya salah seorang daripada ibu bapanya sekarang (atau pada masa kematiannya) seorang warganegara.
(3) Tertakluk kepada Perkara 18, apabila permohonan dibuat kepada Kerajaan Persekutuan oleh ibu atau bapa atau penjaga seseorang yang di bawah umur dua puluh satu tahun, maka orang itu berhak didaftarkan sebagai warganegara jika dia dilahirkan sebelum permulaan bulan Oktober 1962 dan bapanya sekarang (atau pada masa kematiannya) seorang warganegara dan juga seorang warganegara pada permulaan bulan itu (jika hidup pada masa itu), dan jika Kerajaan Persekutuan berpuas hati bahawa orang itu biasanya bermastautin di Persekutuan dan berkelakuan baik.
(4) Bagi maksud Fasal (1), kemastautinan sebelum Hari Malaysia di wilayah-wilayah yang termasuk di dalam Negeri Sabah dan Sarawak hendaklah dikira sebagai kemastautinan di Persekutuan.
(5) Sebutan dalam Fasal (1) mengenai perempuan bersuami ialah sebutan mengenai perempuan yang perkahwinannya telah didaftarkan mengikut mana-mana undang-undang bertulis yang berkuat kuasa di Persekutuan, termasuklah mana-mana undang-undang sedemikian yang berkuat kuasa sebelum Hari Merdeka, atau mengikut mana-mana undang-undang bertulis yang berkuat kuasa sebelum Hari Malaysia di wilayah-wilayah yang termasuk di dalam Negeri Sabah dan Sarawak:
Dengan syarat bahawa Fasal ini tidaklah terpakai jika perempuan itu memohon supaya didaftarkan sebagai warganegara sebelum permulaan bulan September 1965, atau apa-apa tarikh kemudiannya sebagaimana yang ditetapkan melalui perintah oleh Yang di-Pertuan Agong, dan jika pada tarikh permohonan itu dia biasanya bermastautin di Negeri Sabah dan Sarawak. (Perkara 15)
Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishThe Qatari nationality and the rules governing it shall be prescribed by law, and the same shall have the similar power as that of the constitution. (Art. 41)
- Arabicالجنسيّة القطرية وأحكامها يحدّدها القانون، وتكون لتلك الأحكام صفة دستورية. (المادّة 41)
Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishForeign nationals may acquire Iranian citizenship within the framework of the laws. Citizenship may be withdrawn from such persons if another State accepts them as its citizens or if they request it. (Art. 42)
- Persianاتباع خارجه میتوانند در حدود قوانین به تابعیت ایران در آیند و سلب تابعیت اینگونه اشخاص در صورتی ممکن است که دولت دیگری تابعیت آنها را بپذیرد یا خود آنها درخواست کنند. (اصل 42)
Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishThe President has the following tasks and powers:
…
4. ... to decide to permit naturalization in Vietnam, renunciation of Vietnamese citizenship, restoration of Vietnamese citizenship or deprivation of Vietnamese citizenship;
... (Art. 88) - VietnameseChủ tịch nước có những nhiệm vụ và quyền hạn sau đây:
…
4. ... quyết định cho nhập quốc tịch, thôi quốc tịch, trở lại quốc tịch hoặc tước quốc tịch Việt Nam;
… (Điều 88)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English1. Citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall be acquired and terminated, as prescribed by law and shall be indivisible and equal regardless of the grounds of its acquisition.
2. A citizen of the Republic shall not be deprived of citizenship, the right to change such citizenship, and also may not be expelled from Kazakhstan. Deprivation of citizenship is allowed only by a court decision for the commission of terrorist crimes, as well as for causing other grave harm to the vital interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
3. Foreign citizenship of a citizen of the Republic shall not be recognized. (Art. 10) - Kazak1. Қазақстан Республикасының азаматтығы заңға сәйкес алынады және тоқтатылады, ол қандай негізде алынғанына қарамастан, бірыңғай және тең болып табылады.
2. Республиканың азаматын азаматтығынан, өзінің азаматтығын өзгерту құқығынан айыруға, сондай-ақ оны Қазақстаннан тыс жерлерге аластауға болмайды. Азаматтықтан айыруға террористік қылмыстар жасағаны, сондай-ақ Қазақстан Республикасының өмірлік маңызы бар мүдделеріне өзге де ауыр зиян келтіргені үшін соттың шешімімен ғана жол беріледі.
3. Республика азаматының басқа мемлекеттің азаматтығында болуы танылмайды. (10-бап)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English(1) Subject to this Article, every person born in Singapore after 16th September 1963 shall be a citizen of Singapore by birth.
(2) A person shall not be a citizen of Singapore by virtue of clause (1) if at the time of his birth —
(a) his father, not being a citizen of Singapore, possessed such immunity from suit and legal process as is accorded to an envoy of a sovereign power accredited to the President;
(b) his father was an enemy alien and the birth occurred in a place then under the occupation of the enemy; or
(c) Neither of his parents was a citizen of Singapore.
(3) Notwithstanding clause (2)(c), the Government may, where it considers it just and fair and having regard to all the circumstances prevailing at the time of the application, confer citizenship upon a person born in Singapore. (Art. 121)
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༽