Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Assimilation and Naturalization
Citizenship requires a substantially higher standard than ordinary residence or integration: successful assimilation into the national political community.
Policy catalogueNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Agreed Policy
Integration: General Definition
Integration means demonstrable linguistic, civic, economic and social incorporation into the receiving nation; residence alone is insufficient.
Position
Integration is measured through conduct, competence and durable participation. It is distinct from citizenship and from the higher assimilation standard required for naturalization.
Policy
- Require functional command of the principal national language, normally around B1–B2 depending on the status sought.
- Require basic knowledge of national history, institutions, law, civic duties and constitutional structure.
- Treat sustained serious criminality, organized crime, terrorism, serious fraud and deliberate immigration fraud as strong evidence against integration.
- Expect able-bodied working-age non-citizens to participate through employment, self-employment, education, vocational training, recognized family caregiving or another legitimate contribution.
- Consider avoidable long-term dependence on public assistance as a negative integration factor, while exempting genuine incapacity, disability, retirement, temporary unemployment and substantial caregiving.
- Allow evidence of local participation through work, education, churches, associations, clubs and other community institutions without making membership in any particular organization compulsory.
- Require respect for the lawful constitutional order without demanding ideological conformity with every government policy.
- Assess integration through documented individual evidence rather than race alone.
Implementation note
Implementation note
Current EU long-term-residence law permits member states to impose integration conditions and requires stable and regular resources for acquisition of long-term status. The policy separates ancestry-based concepts of historical nationhood from the administrable legal test of whether a particular resident is integrated.
Related positions
- Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Employment and Self-Sufficiency of Foreign Residents
Able-bodied non-citizen residents are expected to remain economically self-supporting and ordinarily do not receive the same open-ended welfare entitlement as citizens.
- Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Residence-Permit Withdrawal
Non-citizen residence status is easier to lose than citizenship and may be withdrawn when defined conditions of admission or continued residence are materially violated.
- Manifesto CoreNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Immigration
Immigration should be limited to levels compatible with genuine integration, social stability, infrastructure capacity and demographic continuity.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.