[7 March 2023: NOTE! This possibility no longer exists, due to the fact that the US State Department has announced that the fee for renouncing US citizenship will be reduced to US$450.00. For Dutch law to consider a fee paid for renunciation to be a hardship, it has...
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BREAKING: Upper chamber of Dutch parliament defeats bill to change nationality law
The Eerste Kamer, the upper chamber of the Dutch parliament, has voted to defeat the bill introduced by the government to make changes to Dutch nationality law. The standard period of legal residence in the Netherlands required for an immigrant to become a Dutch...
Bill passed to help Dutch citizens who lost their citizenship by the passage of time
On 28 June, the lower house of the Dutch parliament passed a bill to help former Dutch citizens living abroad who lost their Dutch citizenship on 1 April 2013 by neglecting to have a passport issued to them in 10 years. If this bill also passes the upper house of...
Bill to change naturalization requirement passed by lower house of Parliament, with some good news
(See, for the previous news item on this matter: https://www.franssenadvocaten.nl/english/status-proposed-change-dutch-nationality-law-increase-residence-requirement-naturalization-5-years-7-years/ ) The plenary debate in the lower chamber of Parliament (the Tweede...
[OUT OF DATE] Status of proposed change to Dutch nationality law to increase residence requirement for naturalization from 5 years to 7 years
[THIS NEWS ITEM IS OUT OF DATE: SEE https://www.franssenadvocaten.nl/english/bill-change-natu…house-parliament/ ] Several years ago, the Dutch government (a coalition of the conservative-liberal VVD party and the social-democratic Labor party) sent Parliament a...
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