Romania: The renunciation of citizenship: the offices or ministries through which persons obtained and submitted their applications; the steps involved or procedures to be followed; the documentation required; whether the ethnicity of the applicant assisted or hindered the application; the length of time from submission of the application for renunciation of Romanian citizenship to the reception of a response indicating whether the application had been granted (January 1992 - January 1993)
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 March 1999 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | ROM30993.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Romania: The renunciation of citizenship: the offices or ministries through which persons obtained and submitted their applications; the steps involved or procedures to be followed; the documentation required; whether the ethnicity of the applicant assisted or hindered the application; the length of time from submission of the application for renunciation of Romanian citizenship to the reception of a response indicating whether the application had been granted (January 1992 - January 1993), 1 March 1999, ROM30993.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab4b7c.html [accessed 5 June 2023] |
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The 1996 Council of Europe's European Bulletin of Nationality states:
Renunciation of Romanian citizenship may be approved, on cogent grounds, in the case of persons who have reached the age of 18 and are not suspected of having committed or have not been charged with a criminal offence; have not been ordered to serve a prison sentence and who are not being sued for debts towards the State or natural or legal persons of Romania.
The Act [Act on Romanian Citizenship of 1 March 1991] also contains provisions relating to the procedure for conferring citizenship, withdrawing citizenship and approving the renunciation of Romanian citizenship.
Applications for the conferment or approval of the renunciation of citizenship shall be made in person or by a representative with special and official power of attorney and shall be addressed to the Citizenship Commission attached to the Ministry of Justice, which scrutinises the applications and suggests to the ministry how they might be dealt with.
On the basis of the Citizenship Commission's report, the Ministry of Justice presents the Government with a draft decision on the conferment, renunciation or withdrawal of Romanian citizenship (126).
No additional information on the requirements or the procedures involved in the renunciation of Romanian citizenship, nor on whether the ethnicity of the applicant assisted or hindered the application, could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate 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. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Reference
European Bulletin on Nationality. March 1996. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
Additional Sources Consulted
Electronic sources: IRB databases, Internet, WNC.
Unsuccessful attempts to contact oral sources.
