Three Moroccan children were born in Belgium and have lived there since birth. Their application for Belgian nationality was nevertheless blocked because their father is residing illegally in the country. After several years of legal proceedings, the Constitutional Court has now ruled that the rule is discriminatory.
The government had opposed the acquisition of French nationality by a Moroccan woman married to a Frenchman, citing insufficient assimilation. The Council of State has now overturned the refusal, finding the evidence insufficiently solid.
Candidates for French nationality must now pay significantly more for their application. The tax stamp required for a naturalization request is set at 255 euros.
France’s highest court has ruled: a notarized kafala deed, once validated by a foreign judge—in this case, in Morocco—constitutes a court decision. The ruling clarifies the conditions for obtaining French citizenship for children taken into care.
Moroccans once again top the list of foreigners who have obtained Belgian nationality.
The Audiencia Nacional has confirmed the decision to refuse Spanish nationality to a Moroccan "for reasons of national interest".
The House of Representatives has just adopted a bill on the Moroccan Nationality Code . This new law sets the conditions that any person wishing to obtain citizenship must meet.
Moroccans are among the foreign workers naturalized in France last week for their civic engagement during the health crisis.
More than 12,000 foreign workers, including Moroccans, have been naturalized in France since the start of the pandemic. These are workers who remained on the "front line" during the health crisis, the French Ministry of the Interior announced on Thursday, September 9.
A Moroccan residing in Ceuta (Sebta) for several years has been denied the granting of Spanish nationality. While the applicant’s wife is Spanish, the administrative chamber of the National Court states that it has rejected his file due to "his lack of integration and inappropriate civic behavior".
A lively exchange between the representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the defense of the accused marked the hearing of the trial of the "network for the naturalization of Israelis", on Thursday, October 10, before the Court of Appeal of Casablanca, over a matter of translation into Hebrew.
Spanish nationality has been denied to a Moroccan living in Huelva, Spain. He could not read or write the language of Cervantes. The National Court therefore considered that he had an insufficient degree of integration into society.