Portugal: Information on Portuguese citizenship rights for a person born abroad in 1965 of a Portuguese father, a person married to him or her for nine years, and their eight-year old child
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 February 1996 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | PRT22821.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Portugal: Information on Portuguese citizenship rights for a person born abroad in 1965 of a Portuguese father, a person married to him or her for nine years, and their eight-year old child, 1 February 1996, PRT22821.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab5f84.html [accessed 1 June 2023] |
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Information on the requested subjects, beyond that provided in previous Responses to Information Requests and the European Bulletin on Nationality (published by the Council of Europe) available through your Regional Documentation Centre, could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB.
A copy of the updated Portuguese legislation on the subject, provided by the Embassy of Portugal in Ottawa, has been forwarded to your Regional Documentation Centre. However, an official translation of this legislation is currently unavailable to the DIRB. An answer from the embassy to your specific question was not available by the requested deadline.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently 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. Please find below a list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Sources Consulted
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Latin America Daily Report. Daily.
Immigration and Nationality: Law and Practice [London]. Quarterly. Tolley Publishing Company.
Material from the Indexed Media Review (IMR) or country files containing articles and reports from diverse sources (primarily dailies and periodicals) from the Weekly Media Review.
Newspapers and periodicals pertaining to the appropriate region.
Relevant laws on citizenship.
Foreign diplomatic representatives in Canada.
On-line searches of news articles.
IRB, USINS and UNHCR databases.
Note:
This list is not exhaustive. Country-specific books available in the Resource Centre are not included.
