The Government parties propose an additional sanction of loss of nationality if the naturalized foreigner commits a serious crime within ten years of obtaining citizenship, but Chega is now asking for this period to be increased to 20.
Chega also requests that a child of foreigners born in Portugal can only apply for nationality if “one of the parents has legally resided in Portuguese territory for at least three five years”, a proposal accepted by the PSD/CDS in its amendment.
André Ventura’s party also argues that nationality requests can only be made by those who have not “enjoyed social support in the last three years of residence”, indicating a series of associated documents.
The PS calls for balance and political consensus in the review of the nationality law, proposing shorter deadlines than the Government in the naturalization regime and guarantees of specificity for citizens of the CPLP and European Union, proposing that the term of legal residence for a naturalization candidate be at least five years in these cases.
The Government’s proposal increases to seven years in relation to CPLP citizens and ten years for other countries. PSD and CDS have meanwhile come to equate European Union citizens with those of the CPLP.
On Tuesday, the Liberal Initiative presented an amendment to the proposal in which it defends a general rule of ten years to obtain Portuguese nationality, allowing seven years if the applicant meets more demanding criteria, and Livre asked for greater protection for refugees and their children.
The Government included a proposed amendment to the Penal Code which provides that the court must “take into account”, in its decision, the defendant’s “disregard” for the “constitutional order of values, the national community and the integrity and security of the Portuguese State”, his “degree of family and community integration” and prevents the application of the sentence from having “political reasons” as its foundations.
The proposal currently under debate provided for a transitional regime that applied the beginning of the diploma on June 19, after the guardianship claimed that the government program already provided for this measure and that there had been a large number of requests for naturalizations.
However, the amendments that can be consulted in Parliament drop this requirement.
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