Macedonia: Information on whether Macedonia and Poland have a reciprocal agreement on citizenship
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 November 1994 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | MCD18938.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Macedonia: Information on whether Macedonia and Poland have a reciprocal agreement on citizenship, 1 November 1994, MCD18938.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab024e.html [accessed 8 June 2023] |
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Information on the requested topic is currently unavailable to the DIRB, however the following information may be of interest.
Article 2 of the Citizenship Act of the Republic of Macedonia, available in your Regional Documentation Centre, states:
A citizen of the Republic of Macedonia may also be a citizen of another country.
A citizen of the Republic of Macedonia who is also a citizen of another country shall, in the Republic of Macedonia, be considered exclusively a citizen of the Republic of Macedonia, unless an international agreement stipulates otherwise.
Article 7 of the act sets out the conditions for obtaining citizenship through naturalization*. One of these conditions is that "he has relinquished his foreign citizenship or has proof that he will lose it if accepted as a citizen of the Republic of Macedonia" or that he renounces his foreign citizenship.
The attached article from the Macedonian publication Puls may also be of interest.
This response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently
The article heading on the attached translation of article 7 was omitted in translation. Article 7 follows sub-heading "3. By Naturalization".
available to the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to
be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
Reference
Macedonia. 11 November 1992. Citizenship Act of the Republic of Macedonia.
Attachments
Macedonia. 11 November 1992. Citizenship Act of the Republic of Macedonia.
Puls [Skopje, in Macedonian]. 1 July 1994. Dzvezdan Georgievski. "Implications of Citizenship Law Examined. (FBIS-EEU-94-149 3 Aug. 1994, pp. 36-38)
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