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
Probationary Naturalization
Newly acquired citizenship is subject to a ten-year probationary period with enhanced revocation rules for narrowly defined grave grounds.
Position
Naturalization creates citizenship, but during the first ten years the state retains an enhanced power to reopen and revoke acquired citizenship for specified serious misconduct or material defects in the naturalization basis.
Policy
- Set the probationary period at ten years from the date citizenship is acquired.
- Permit revocation for material naturalization fraud, false identity or deliberate concealment of a disqualifying fact.
- Permit revocation for exceptionally serious post-naturalization crimes as defined in the separate serious-crime citizenship entry.
- Permit revocation for terrorism, treason or conduct constituting an exceptionally grave threat to national security where expressly defined by law.
- Require an individual judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding, proof of the statutory ground and a meaningful right of appeal.
- Do not make ordinary unemployment, political disagreement or a failed civics quiz by itself an automatic ground for revocation.
- After the ten-year period, ordinary citizenship protections apply, subject to permanent fraud and other exceptional revocation grounds adopted elsewhere in the catalogue.
Implementation note
Implementation note
This is a proposed constitutional departure from systems that treat naturalization as immediately indistinguishable from citizenship by birth for all deprivation purposes. Existing international nationality instruments constrain deprivation, especially where it would create statelessness; those conflicts would require explicit constitutional and treaty treatment.
Related positions
- Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Revocation of Naturalized Citizenship
Naturalized citizenship may be revoked judicially in exceptionally serious cases such as fraudulent naturalization, treason or terrorism.
- Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Naturalized Citizenship and Exceptionally Serious Crime
Acquired citizenship may be revoked for a narrowly defined class of exceptionally grave crimes, followed by removal where the resulting nationality and return requirements can be lawfully implemented.
- Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Citizenship: General Principle
Citizenship is membership of a historical political community rather than a function of residence, and Restore Europa rejects automatic territorial birthright citizenship as a general rule.
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