{"id":823961,"date":"2024-06-28T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=823961"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:18:34","slug":"germanys-new-dual-citizenship-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2024\/06\/28\/germanys-new-dual-citizenship-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s new dual citizenship law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany&#8217;s new dual citizenship law, passed on January 19, 2024, and enacted on June 27, 2024, allows individuals to acquire German citizenship while retaining their original nationality. This reform is the result of a 42-year effort by German-Turkish organizations and activists, including Professor Hakk\u0131 Keskin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key changes under the new law include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reduced residency requirement for naturalization from 8 to 5 years, or even 3 years for those with strong German language skills.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elimination of the written German language test for the first generation of immigrants arriving before 1974.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Automatic German citizenship for children born in Germany to at least one parent with legal residency of five years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exclusion of individuals who reject democratic principles, engage in hate speech, or advocate for Sharia law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The law signifies Germany&#8217;s recognition as a country of immigration and aims to promote inclusivity and social cohesion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-turkish-forum wp-block-embed-turkish-forum\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mIIOnrO7jX\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/2024\/06\/28\/cifte-vatandaslik-yasasi-almanyada-dun-27-haziran-2024-de-yururluge-girdi\/\">\u00c7ifte Vatanda\u015fl\u0131k Yasas\u0131 Almanya`da d\u00fcn, 27 Haziran 2024 de Y\u00fcr\u00fcrl\u00fc\u011fe Girdi<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;\u00c7ifte Vatanda\u015fl\u0131k Yasas\u0131 Almanya`da d\u00fcn, 27 Haziran 2024 de Y\u00fcr\u00fcrl\u00fc\u011fe Girdi&#8221; &#8212; Turkish Forum\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/2024\/06\/28\/cifte-vatandaslik-yasasi-almanyada-dun-27-haziran-2024-de-yururluge-girdi\/embed\/#?secret=Z8Dr4OkjQp#?secret=mIIOnrO7jX\" data-secret=\"mIIOnrO7jX\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s new dual citizenship law, passed on January 19, 2024, and enacted on June 27, 2024, allows individuals to acquire German citizenship while retaining their original nationality. This reform is the result of a 42-year effort by German-Turkish organizations and activists, including Professor Hakk\u0131 Keskin. Key changes under the new law include: The law signifies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4115,"featured_media":823963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4381],"class_list":["post-823961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","tag-german-turks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}