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CITIZENSHIP

Administrative Court upheld a citizenship waitlist decision in a mixed-parent case

OHCHR's Cyprus report records that on 28 March 2024 the Administrative Court found lawful an October 2019 decision to place a citizenship request on a waiting list for future consideration.

28 March 2024

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CitizenshipChildren of mixed marriagesIdentity cards and passportsDescentCivil registration

The applicant was a Turkish citizen born in Cyprus in 1995 to a Turkish Cypriot mother and a Turkish father. OHCHR reports that the Administrative Court held the October 2019 waiting-list decision to be correct and lawful.1

The Court rejected the discrimination argument because the applicant had not provided sufficient details to substantiate it. The OHCHR report does not say that the applicant was later granted or refused citizenship, and it does not reproduce the full domestic reasoning or the waiting-list timetable.1

Sources

  1. OHCHR Report on the Question of Human Rights in Cyprus, A/HRC/58/21A — primary / documentaryOffice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights · 2025-01-21OHCHR's report on the human rights situation in Cyprus, covering 1 December 2023 to 30 November 2024 and recording two Administrative Court citizenship decisions from March 2024.A/HRC/58/21, paras. 23–24 and footnotes 28–29 — Administrative Court decisions of 13 and 28 March 2024 concerning citizenship delays and a mixed-parent citizenship waiting listhttps://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4075994/f…https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4075994/files/A_HRC_58_21-EN.pdf