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Title Estonia: Information on whether there have been changes to the citizenship law concerning the status of a man with foreign citizenship married to an Estonian woman
Publisher Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country Estonia
Publication Date 1 March 1993
Citation / Document Symbol EST12993
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Estonia: Information on whether there have been changes to the citizenship law concerning the status of a man with foreign citizenship married to an Estonian woman

 

Article 4 of the Law on Citizenship states that "female aliens" shall acquire Estonian citizenship "upon marriage to an Estonian citizen." The law does not make a similar provision for males who are foreign nationals to acquire citizenship upon marriage to an Estonian woman. In a telephone interview on 1 March 1993, the Consul for the Republic of Estonia stated that there had been no changes to the citizenship law of Estonia in regards to the status of a foreign man married to an Estonian woman. He indicated that a foreign man married to an Estonian must go through the same procedures as other foreign citizens in order to acquire Estonian citizenship.

Additional and/or corroborating information on this topic is not currently available to the DIRB.

Reference

Consul for the Republic of Estonia, Toronto. 1 March 1993. Telephone Interview.

Law on Citizenship. 1938. Republic of Estonia. (re-implemented 26 February 1992)

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