However the law did not spell out the guidelines for acquisition of citizenship.

Thus, knowledge of language is a requirement for the acquisition of citizenship.

Other acts of Congress provide for acquisition of citizenship by persons born abroad.

Section 9 of the constitution allows parliament to make "provision" for the acquisition of citizenship.

The constitution also allows for acquisition of citizenship by: descent, registration, naturalization, and acts of parliament.

Nevertheless, there are significant legal obstacles for their acquisition of citizenship due to the restrictive registration system, which required proof of adequate income.

Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the acquisition of citizenship and nationality by somebody who was not a citizen of that country at the time of birth.

Acquisition of citizenship through descent (jus sanguinis)

Basic Criteria for Acquisition of Citizenship jus sanguinis:

However, the actual citizenship act governing the details of acquisition of citizenship in the FRY was not passed until 1996.

His first book, published in 1937, was a commentary on the legal acquisition of citizenship under the Geneva Convention on Upper Silesia.

The 1976 Citizenship Act clarified the mechanism for acquisition of citizenship of a republic by citizens of other republics.

Acquisition of citizenship is also granted upon request if a person has lived for at least 5 continuous years on Slovak territory and speaks Slovak language.

But the acquisition of citizenship for any casta of Afro-American peoples of the Americas was through naturalization excluding slaves.

Citizenship and nationality (including both acquisition of citizenship through naturalization and the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 and renunciation of citizenship)

On the other hand, even though descent remained very important for the acquisition of citizenship, the emphasis on the significance of residency, was evidence of the French influence of jus soli.

Section 17 empowers Parliament to allow the acquisition of citizenship in other ways, in addition to those set out in the constitution, and to make administrative regulations covering applications for citizenship by registration or naturalization.

In 95, the Roman Censors passed the Lex Licinia Mucia specifically to curb irregular acquisition of citizenship by wealthy allies (presumably by bribing Roman magistrates to enter their names on the citizen-rolls).

Thus since the date of entry into force (April 27), the equality of foreign spouses before the Italian law was instituted, and the cardinal principle of acquisition of citizenship through one's expression of free will was reasserted.

Regarding naturalization (acquisition of citizenship other than at birth), the treaty contained a provision stating that "nothing herein contained shall be held to confer naturalization ... upon the subjects of China in the United States."

The constituent republics, including the Socialist Republic of Montenegro, passed their own citizenship acts, which mirrored the federal acts and provided for acquisition of citizenship of the constituent republic along with federal citizenship.

Consideration of the case by the United States Supreme Court and by state courts transformed it into a rule regarding American citizenship and solidified the concept of jus soli as the primary determining factor controlling the acquisition of citizenship by birth.

Beyond this issue, I believe that the rapporteur’s proposals with regard to the acquisition of citizenship of one or another Member State and to the discrimination against third-country nationals residing in a given Member State should be taken up by this plenary assembly, with all the political groups joining together.

He held that, because the subject of war crimes in World War II was not an external affair at the time, i.e., 1939 to 1945, the subsequent acquisition of citizenship or residence in Australia by an individual was not enough to transform the subject matter into an external affair.

The same report recommended that Liechtenstein also "consider amending the Act on Facilitated Naturalization with a view to reducing the required period of residence for the acquisition of citizenship and consider introducing the right to appeal and legal review under the ordinary naturalization procedure subject to municipal popular votes."