According to the conditions outlined in the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China, authorities may also require " any other material that the authority believes are related to the nationality application.

On July 14, 1952, the Israeli parliament enacted the Israeli Nationality Law.

The United States Refugee Act of 1980 ( Public Law 96-212 ) was an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, and was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U. S., and to provide comprehensive and uniform provisions for the effective resettlement and absorption of those refugees who are admitted.

Article 4 of the 26 June 1889 Nationality Law stated: " Descendants of families proscribed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes will continue to benefit from the benefit of the 15 December 1790 Law, but on the condition that a nominal decree should be issued for every petitioner.

Foreign descendants of Huguenots lost the automatic right to French citizenship in 1945 ( by force of the ordonnance du 19 octobre 1945, revoking the 1889 Nationality Law ).

* British Nationality Law

Article 4 of the June 26, 1889 Nationality Law stated that: ' Descendants of families proscribed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes will continue to benefit from the benefit of the December 15, 1790 Law, but on the condition that a nominal decree a decree stating the name of the specific applicant for citizenship should be issued for every petitioner.

Foreign descendants of Huguenots lost the automatic right to French citizenship in 1945 ( by force of the ordonnance du 19 octobre 1945, revoking the 1889 Nationality Law ).

" Foreign persons of Greek origin ", who neither live in Greece nor hold Greek citizenship nor were necessarily born there, may become Greek citizens by enlisting in Greece's military forces, under article 4 of the Code of Greek Citizenship, as amended by the Acquisition of Greek Nationality by Aliens of Greek Origin Law ( Law 2130 / 1993 ).

Other private member's bills to have been enacted include the Adoption Act 1964, the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, the Charter Trustees Act 1986, the Law Reform ( Year and a Day Rule ) Act 1996, the Knives Act 1997, the British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Act 1997, the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, the Gangmasters ( Licensing ) Act 2004, the Sustainable Communities Act 2006.

To add to the misery, the Danish government refused to allow the Danish optants expelled by Prussia to settle in Denmark, though this rule was modified by the Danish Nationality Law of 1898 in favour of the children of optants born after the passing of the law.

By this treaty, the German January government undertook to allow all children born of Danish optants before the passing of the new Danish Nationality Law of 1898 to acquire Prussian nationality on the usual conditions and on their own application.

* Nationality Law of the Republic of China, the law which defines who is or may become a ROC national.

* Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China, the law which defines who is or may become a PRC national

Nussbaum is the author or editor of a number of books that have been influential within her field, including The Fragility of Goodness ( 1986 ), Sex and Social Justice ( 1998 ), a work with Juha Sihvola, The Sleep of Reason ( 2002 ), Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law ( 2004 ), Animal Rights ( 2004, co-editor with Cass Sunstein ), and Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership ( 2006 ).

* the so-called " Nationality Law of 1869 " creating a common Ottoman citizenship irrespective of religious or ethnic divisions ( 1869 ).

" Follow-up legislation on immigration matters was contained in the Nationality Law of 1952.

A 1970 amendment, however, stated that, " The rights of a Jew under this Law and the rights of an oleh under the Nationality Law ... are also vested in a child and a grandchild of a Jew, the spouse of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew and the spouse of a grandchild of a Jew.

In 1949, the International Law Commission included the topic " Nationality, including statelessness " in its list of topics of international law provisionally selected for codification.

Pro-independence supporters point out that the Nationality Law of the Republic of China was originally promulgated in February 1929, when Taiwan was argued to be a de jure part of Japan.

In Schneider v. Rusk, 377 U. S. 163 ( 1964 ), the Supreme Court invalidated a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 ( the McCarran-Walter Act ) that would strip naturalized Americans of their citizenship after three years ' continuous residence in their country of origin ; and in Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U. S. 253 ( 1967 ), the Supreme Court, reviewing part of the Nationality Act of 1940, held that Congress has no power to strip anyone of their citizenship, whether it is acquired by birth or by naturalization.

These sanctions included the imposition of Section 212 ( f ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to refuse entry into the United States of senior government officials and others who formulated, implemented, or benefited from policies impeding Nigeria's transition to democracy ; suspension of all military assistance ; and a ban on the sale and repair of military goods and refinery services to Nigeria.

The British Nationality Act 1948 conferred full and equal citizenship and settlement rights in Britain on all 800 million subjects of the worldwide British Empire.

The term encompassed all citizens of countries included in the list contained in the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948.

As Chairman of the Club's Race Relations & Immigration Committee, he also wrote the same month to all Club members ; " There has been a lot of ill-thought out agitation following events in China, urging the government to amend the British Nationality Act so as to give the right of UK residence to more than three million people from Hong Kong who hold British passports.

In order to try to encourage mass immigration from the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth to fill shortages in the labour market, the 1948 British Nationality Act gave British citizenship to all people living in Commonwealth countries, and full rights of entry and settlement in Britain.

Following regulations established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act ( INA ), consular officers overseas, under the guidance of the Bureau's Office of Visa Services, are responsible for issuing all non-immigrant and immigrant visas.

While the BOC category was intended to be a residual category of British Nationality that will disappear when all current holders die, it is still possible to acquire BOC status after 1983:

" The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language ; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality "

On 28 July 1982, following a stiff tightening of Pacific Island immigration by the Muldoon government, in its interpretation of the 1923 and 1928 British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, the Privy Council ruled that all Samoans born between 1924 and 1948, and their children, were British subjects and hence, on 1 January 1949, had become New Zealand citizens.

The British Nationality Act 1981 differentiated between British Citizenship, British Overseas Citizenship, and British Dependent Territory Citizenship, recognizing the right of settlement only for British citizens.

However, the cumulative effect of stalled sovereignty negotiations, the British Nationality Act 1981 ( which would deprive many Islanders of their rights as full British citizens ), the announced withdrawal of, the shelving of plans to rebuild the Royal Marine barracks at Moody Brook, and the proposed closure of the British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken on South Georgia, was to convince Argentina that Britain had no future interest in the Islands.

** The British Nationality Act 1981 -- Established nationality called British Dependent Territories citizens ( BDTCs )

In Southern Rhodesia, the unrecognised Parliament of Rhodesia purported to repeal the Citizenship of Southern Rhodesia and British Nationality Act 1963, under which Southern Rhodesian citizens were British subjects, and to enact the Citizenship of Rhodesia Act 1970, following the declaration of Rhodesia as a republic.

Although it was not usual for citizens to acquire British citizenship under the previous British Nationality Act 1981, if their connection was solely to the British colony or territory, this has now been made automatic.

He was notable Conservative supporter of Labour's 1948 British Nationality Act which reaffirmed the rights of Commonwealth citizens to enter Britain without restriction, showing a commitment to the unity and indivisibility of the empire.

It had been argued that the British Nationality Act 1981 had indicated British reluctance to hold the islands, as the residents were not legally full British citizens, and after the war ended in victory for the British, the 1983 Act was passed to clarify the United Kingdom's commitment to the islands.

Acquiring Overseas citizenship of India prevents British nationals from registering as full British citizens under Section 4B of the British Nationality Act of 1981 ( which requires that nationals have no other citizenship in order to register.

British subjects may register as British citizens under section 4B of the British Nationality Act 1981 without requiring any UK residence if they have no other citizenship or nationality and have not after 4 July 2002 renounced, voluntarily relinquished or lost through action or inaction any citizenship or nationality.

The Nationality Law was revised in February 2000 ; however, there were no articles addressing the mass naturalization of Taiwanese persons as ROC citizens.

The Certificate of Loss of Nationality ( CLN ) is a form of the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the United States Department of State which is completed by American citizens seeking renunciation of citizenship.

British Nationals ( Overseas ) can register as full British citizens ( rather than having to apply for naturalisation ) under section 4 of the British Nationality Act 1981, after living in the United Kingdom for five years ; the last year of which must have been without any immigration restrictions ( such as by holding Indefinite Leave to Remain ( ILR ) or its equivalent ).

In 2005, a report by the South London Citizens enquiry into service provision by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate found that " It was perceived that minimum standards of comfort afforded to British citizens do not apply to migrants waiting for services at Lunar House.

Without the permit they are denied from entering mainland China ; however, those politicians are still PRC citizens under the Chinese nationality law ; acquisition of PRC citizenship of ethnic Chinese residents in Hong Kong is involuntary, although they may elect to forfeit their Chinese citizenship if they hold a foreign nationality, except the British National ( Overseas ) status and the British citizenship obtained in the British Nationality Selection Scheme.

The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 granted British Overseas Citizens, British Subjects and British Protected Persons the right to register as British citizens if they have no other citizenship or nationality and have not after 4 July 2002 renounced, voluntarily relinquished or lost through action or inaction any citizenship or nationality.

* British Overseas citizens and British subjects who have no other nationality, and have not lost or renounced another nationality since 4 July 2002, may register as British citizens under s4B of the British Nationality Act 1981 without requiring UK residence.

Many Hong Kong citizens emigrated to Great Britain through the British Nationality Selection Scheme.

The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 has also granted British Overseas Citizens, British Subjects and British Protected Persons the right to register as British citizens if they have no other citizenship or nationality and have not after 4 July 2002 renounced, voluntarily relinquished or lost through action or inaction any citizenship or nationality.

British nationality law continued to recognise citizens of Ireland / Eire as holding the status of British subjects until the British Nationality Act 1948 came into force on 1 January 1949.

As a result of the British Nationality Act 1948, Irish citizens (" citizens of Eire ") lost British-subject status automatically on 1 January 1949 if they did not acquire citizenship of the UK & Colonies or that of another Commonwealth country, notwithstanding that Ireland did not cease to be one of His Majesty's dominions until 18 April 1949.