Policy Document

Royal Decree Granting Spanish Nationality to Volunteers of the International Brigades (1792/2008)

Year

2008

Country

Spain

Topic

Migration

Subtopic

Naturalisation & Citizenship

Keywords

Rights of migrants Access to citizenship

Main implications

This royal decree renewed this right to naturalise, but eliminated the deadline. The applicants also no longer had to give up their former nationality.

Benefits & Requirements

Implementing Text & Related Legislation

Original name of the legal document/act (native language)

Real Decreto sobre concesión de la nacionalidad española a los voluntarios integrantes de las Brigadas Internacionales (1792/2008)

Date of passage/approval

3^rd November 2008

Date of signature

17^th November 2008

Date of publication

18^th November 2008

Are the effects retroactive?

Actors

Council of Ministers
Minister of Justice: Mariano Fernández Bermejo (party: PSOE)
Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales

Read the Law

Original full text source in native language

Boletín Oficial del Estado, num. 277, pages 45577-45581, Ministerio de Justicia, Referencia BOE-A-2008-18495.

Original full text web source in native language

http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2008/11/17/pdfs/A45577-45581.pdf

Comments & Clarifications

Royal Decree 39/1996 granted members of the international brigades who fought in the Spanish Civil War the right to acquire Spanish nationality by means of the Carta de Naturaleza within a period of three years.