The Koru has amended the Hokorian Nationality Act 2024, following their earlier released plans to reform nationality law and make it easier for foreigners to become Hokorian nationals.
Changes to the Act
The amendments make various changes, including:
- Creating more specific types of Hokorian nationality- Hokorian citizenship, Serenian-Hokorian citizenship and Royal Hokorian citizenship
- Limiting birth and adoption (descent) acquisition to the person’s parents, grandparents and great-grandparents
- Allowing children in the care of the Hokorian authorities for longer than 3 years to be eligible for Hokorian nationality
- Allowing children of people with settled status to be eligible for Hokorian nationality
- Limiting marriage and civil partnership acquisition to 5 years or more (changed from 1 year or more)
- Giving Prime Ministers and Governors the power to award Hokorian nationality
- Allowing the Government to choose whether it automatically issues documents certifying Hokorian nationality
- Allowing the Government to issue a registration on a person’s behalf, with their consent
- Requiring parent or guardian approval for registrations made by people aged between 14 and 17
- Requiring an application to be submitted on their behalf for registrations for people aged under 14
- Requiring the Government to remove all registration information of unsuccessful registrants
- Allowing the Crown, Prime Minister and Minister for National Affairs to declare foreign militaries as restricted
- Allowing parents and guardians to renounce their child’s Hokorian nationality if they are under 18 (changed from under 14)
- Allowing the Crown, Prime Minister and Minister for National Affairs to declare nationalities as restricted
- Requiring registrants to renounce their restricted nationality to become a Hokorian national, unless the nationality was acquired at birth or the Crown authorises an exception
- Requiring Hokorian nationals to renounce their restricted nationality within 40 days of being asked to, unless the nationality was acquired at birth or the Crown authorises an exception
What it means
Hokorian nationals do not need to do anything to get a new nationality- they will be notified of their new nationality under the law, either:
- Hokorian citizenship
- Serenian-Hokorian citizenship
- Royal Hokorian citizenship
The notification of their new nationality will be sent by the Ministry of National Affairs by their registered email. The new acquisition of nationality requirements does not impact anyone already recognised as a Hokorian national, but the new loss of nationality methods do.
Hokorian nationals should read the Hokorian Nationality Act 2024, to ensure their status as a Hokorian national is not impacted.
Get in touch
If you have any questions about what this means for you, you can contact the Nationality Enquiries Team by email at nationality@nationalaffairs.hokoriagov.net.
