Sentence examples for granting nationality from inspiring English sources

He has offered mild concessions to Islamists and Kurds, freeing prisoners from both lots, promising to allow new religious institutions to be set up, and saying he would look into the question of granting nationality to some 300,000 stateless Kurds.

Some municipalities apply rather open policies, while others will go as far as granting nationality by means of a local population vote.

"To this point Scotland has been at a disadvantage as the nations we compete against generally have the ability to grant nationality by issuing ancestral passports.

"This fall in the numbers granted nationality reflects the impact of more effective controls on non-EU immigration".

If all the Palestinian-born were granted nationality, their land, they fear, would no longer belong to the Bedouin.

Their numbers will only swell if the Spanish parliament approves a plan to grant nationality to potentially millions of Sephardi Jews, descended from those it expelled in 1492.

Although states alone possess the right to grant nationality, if the claim is pleaded against another state, the grant of nationality must conform to the requirements of international law and, in particular, demonstrate the existence of a genuine link between the individual and the state concerned.

Under international treaties including the UN convention on the rights of the child, governments are obliged to grant nationality to any child born on their soil who would otherwise be stateless.

However, Fifa statutes say that, in addition to being granted nationality, a naturalised player must have lived in his adopted country for at least five years.

In Articles 1-4, the Convention attacked the problem of statelessness at birth by requiring states to grant nationality to all children born in its territory who would otherwise be stateless.

The stateless population of Thailand is currently estimated to number 2 to 3.5 million, despite efforts on the part of the Thai government to grant nationality to some members of "hill tribe" ethnic minorities.