Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday reported that US immigration authorities detained eight Nicaraguan exiles who were previously granted protected status in 2023 after fleeing political prosecution. O...

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Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error The Home Office is facing legal action over a controversial policy to strip EU citizens who were in the UK before Brexit of their residency rights on the grounds that it gave them the status “in error”. It comes as a Home Office minister revealed that the government has contacted 1,473 citizens with post-Brexit residency rights to tell them the original decision to grant them residency was made in error. Continue reading...

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Since Bangladesh’s 2024 political transition, India-Bangladesh border “push-ins” have intensified, with thousands deported to Bangladesh outside agreed verification and repatriation procedures and ignoring disputed nationality claims.

Thailand hasn't stripped a dual national of citizenship since 1965. Kuwait tolerated it for decades, then revoked 50,000 citizenships in a year.

(Nairobi, September 22, 2026) – Niger’s junta has provisionally stripped five more exiled opposition figures of their nationality, extending a controversial policy increasingly used against critics of...

Italian citizens who have resided in the United Kingdom prior to the end of Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 (when EU law cease to apply in the UK) have been impacted by a serious Home …

The Home Office has been treating some grants of EU pre-settled status as having been granted in error because it has misunderstood when Italian citizenship

Le président nigérien Abdourahamane Tiani a signé, jeudi 17 septembre 2026, un décret portant déchéance provisoire de la nationalité de cinq personnes, dont l’ancien Premier ministre de Mohamed Bazoum...

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Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change

Five of the 13 active citizenship by investment programs publish the nationalities they exclude. The other eight restrict applicants without naming them.

On July 26, 2026, the Italian Supreme Court issued a much-awaited decision concerning Italian citizenship by descent, ruling that under Law No. 555 of 1912 on Italian Citizenship, a minor born to an I...

Britain faces a political battle over its future as a multi-ethnic liberal democracy. In recent years there has been the growth of a new form of ethnonatio

Thousands of nationals, referred to as foreign terrorist fighters and their families, who travelled to Syria and Iraq with the Islamic State and other groups, had remained in detention sites in nor...

Beginning September 1, 2026, JSTOR’s free reading program will provide registered readers with access to 10 articles every 30 days.

On 11 September, the Zambian authorities issued a notice cancelling passports belonging to several government critics “in the interest of national security”

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan said "citizenship is a privilege, not a right" ahead of new rules for people seeking Irish citizenship.

Nina Carlsson (Stockholm School of Economics and Migration Institute of Finland) Sweden’s first citizenship test was held on August 15th, 2026, at the Stockholm Exhibition & Congress Centre in the Sou...

The announcement comes weeks after DCI unveiled a new biometric capture system, which significantly cut the waiting period for the document to less than one day.

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[Bashar AlHadla is a human rights researcher and educator specializing in international human rights law, refugee protection, and nationality law. He holds graduate degrees from Union University in…

Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity, inequalities, and political baggage inherent in such systems.

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In this post, Bronwen Manby discusses the events leading up to the adoption of a draft protocol by the African Union on statelessness and the right to a nationality in Africa. The post also the key pr...

Senegal is on course to become the first African Union (AU) member state to sign and ratify the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights relating to the right to a nationality and ...

Lusaka - Zambia: Opposition politician and lawyer Celestine Mukandila has challenged the cancellation of his National Registration Card and passport,

For the first time, a Belgian company will have to answer in court over allegations that it bribed foreign public officials. Congolese citizens, (…)

Le Conseil des Ministres a examiné et adopté un projet de loi autorisant le Président de la République à ratifier le Protocole à la Charte africaine des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples relatif au dro...