Citizenship Act

Many countries have a law named Citizenship Act, to regulating the Citizenship.

There are laws of that type in: (amongst others)

The Australian Citizenship Act 1948, originally called the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948
The Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1985
- The Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1958, repealed by the 1985 Act
The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946
The Ceylon Citizenship Act
The Citizenship Act (Slovakia)
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act (South Africa)
The British Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948
In the United States:
- The Child Citizenship Act of 2000
- The Citizenship Reform Act of 2005
The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

By continent

Africa

Asia

Europe

European Union & Schengen Area	Andorra ² Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus ⁷ Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland ² Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Monaco ² Netherlands Norway ² Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland ² United Kingdom

Rest of Europe	Albania Armenia ⁷ Azerbaijan ⁵ Belarus Georgian ⁷ Kazakhstan ⁶ Macedonia Moldova Montenegro Northern Cyprus ⁷ ⁹ Russia ³ Serbia Ukraine Turkey ⁴

North America

Oceania

South America

International
organizations

By type

Jus matrimonii
Jus sanguinis
Jus soli
Naturalization

Other

Defunct

¹ British Overseas Territories.

² Open border with Schengen Area.

³ Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here.

⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace.

⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia (Abkhazia; South Ossetia) are transcontinental countries. Both have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus.

⁶ Kazakhstan is a transcontinental country. Has a small part of its territories located west of the Urals in Eastern Europe.

⁷ Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Cyprus (Northern Cyprus) are entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe.

⁸ Egypt is a transcontinental country in North Africa and the Middle East. Has a small part of its territory in the Middle East called Sinai peninsula.

⁹ Partially recognized.

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