Almost a third of pending nationality requests are descendants of Sephardic Jews

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Almost a third of pending nationality requests are descendants of Sephardic Jews

According to IRN data, earlier this week there were more than half a million cases, 31% corresponded to requests for naturalization by descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews.

Almost a third of the pending nationality requests in Portugal are descendants of Sephardic Jews.

According to data released this Saturday by (IRN), earlier this week, on June 30, were under review (515,334), of which 31% corresponded to requests for naturalization by descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews.

Already one in five processes under analysis (20%) concerned requests for naturalization of People who have lived in Portugal for at least five years (Legal residence time), but there were also 15% requests for attribution to children of Portuguese born abroad.

Still according to IRN, others 14% are requests for acquisition for marriage or de facto union With a Portuguese, 12% attribution to grandchildren of Portuguese born abroad and 6% of “acquisition for minor or incapable children of a father or mother who acquired Portuguese nationality”.

In the note released it is also mentioned that “between 2020 and 2025, IRN services received More than 1,543 million requests for Portuguese nationality“.

These requests include various situations, “not limited to the naturalization of foreign citizens,” says IRN, explaining that there are many cases of attribution and acquisition of nationality, such as “marriage or de facto union with Portuguese citizen, legal residence time in Portugal, or the descent of Portuguese”.

“Many of these requests” correspond to birth records, such as the children of Portuguese citizens born abroad, reads on the IRN website.

Thus, in the last five years, IRN has received more than 1.5 million orders, highlighting the year 2022 where the services received 367,348 nationality processes, of which 124,663 under the law provided for the descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews.

In the following years, requests have decreased: In 2023 274,820 lawsuits were entry, the following year were 277,656 and in the first half of this year were 121,460.

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