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IRR > European Race Bulletin > Czech Republic > Immigration law
The law in question states that applicants for citizenship must have a clean criminal record for at least five years. Human-rights representatives have consistently criticised the 'no-criminal record' criteria as especially discriminatory to the underprivileged Roma population, thousands of whom have convictions over the past five years.
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