A citizenship law entered into force in Hungary. It facilitates getting of citizenship for foreign Hungarians. Several thousand residents of Transcarpathia applied for obtaining Hungarian citizenship.
Hungarian citizenship law entered into force on 1 January 2011 – and can be used not only by ethnic Hungarians living in Transcarpathia (are not less than 150 thousand).
Conditions for acquiring citizenship are minimal: the absence of previous charge, a basic knowledge of Hungarian and Hungarian background. Thus, a birth of near relations in Transcarpathia until 1920 or the war period (1938-45) will be enough to get Hungarian citizenship.
It is informed that only last week Hungary’s consular offices received about 12 thousand applications for obtaining Hungarian citizenship. However, most people are not from Transcarpathia, they are the citizens of Serbia, Slovakia and Romania.
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