Over 2 thousand people gave up Kosovo's citizenship for 7 months

For every year at the Department of Citizenship, asylum and migration at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, up to 5,000 people renounce Kosovo's citizenship, but from January to July of this year, there has been an increase in the number of persons who have renounced citizenship.

Freedomdon Neziri from this department says that since Kosovo's declaration of independence, there has been a similar trend of persons who have given up citizenship.

He for Kosovo Prees, says the reason they give up is for people living in European Union countries for whom two citizenships are not allowed.

“The reason why they give up the citizenship of the Republic of Kosovo, citizens of the Republic of Kosovo is because some European Union countries do not allow two citizenships for those countries which are not part of the European Union, you as you know in Ballakan and Kosovo are not part of the European Union, so our citizens who integrate in these European Union countries are required to give up citizenship. We're talking about those European Union countries that don't allow two citizenships. There are other countries of the European Union, which not all allow for more than two citizenships in this case, namely, the number of countries that allow two citizenships in the European Union, and the number of countries that don't allow two citizenships is more or less the same, but it depends on how much we have citizens or so call the diaspora in these countries, then normal in these countries is the number, and the number is large in terms of a loss of citizenship is”, he says.

He says that during 2020, because of pandemic, most people have been unable to give up their citizenship until he points out that more than 2,000 people by July of this year have given up their citizenship.

“We are talking about an annual trend of about 5,000 persons excluded here in 2020 because of the pandemic where most people have had access to procedures in Kosovo, the case in procedures on completing documents in these European Union countries, which have been forced to give up citizenship. The number has been brought in this year as well, we're talking about the same trend, without a big change, we're talking about a trend running by the end of 5,000 people, we actually have more than 2,000 people by July 31st, who have given up on the citizenship of the Republic of Kosovo, add to the fact that the August period will be a greater volume of demands because our countrymen come during the break time, and also use the time to apply for giving up the citizenship of the Republic of Kosovo<1>, he adds.

As far as age is concerned, according to Nezir, the new generations are mainly those who seek to give up Kosovo's citizenship.

The subx0um of persons or the age of persons who give up citizenship of the Republic of Kosovo and citizens of the Republic of Kosovo who give up citizenship is a relative number of young people for yet another reason because people who give up on the citizenship of the Republic of Kosovo have the integration and continued integration or access, especially in terms of a career in terms of schooling in other respects. In recent years a trend has been observed in which the number of people who give up citizenship is not that. The age of people who give up their citizenship is not of postponed ages because those who have no longer taken citizenship in this country have no reason to get citizenship because ultimately a permanent leave of residence in these countries is enough for those who have no reason to integrate that citizenship in these countries opens up a lot as far as the rest of the career and the continuation of life in these countries is concerned, Neri adds.

Neziri further adds that the right to give up a country's citizenship is the right guaranteed with conventions that, according to him, should not be prohibited by someone who wants to give up citizenship.

“The right to give up one country's citizenship is fair guaranteed with the convention, so you have reason to prevent someone who wants to give up, except when he doesn't have another citizenship or a guarantee to promise another citizenship because he's strictly forbidden even under conventions or under law to allow someone to give up the citizenship of the Republic of Kosovo, a country that the person as a result remains without citizenship, namely. These are the circumstances that even conventions prohibit in the case of dealing with the demand for a loss of citizenship, which is that we actually explained to the bakers that someone cannot grant citizenship, remove the citizenship of the Republic of Kosovo only that he wants, but only if there is reason that he has another citizenship or has officially promised another citizenship”, Neziri adds.