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IRR > European Race Bulletin > Czech Republic > Immigration law

Amendment to citizenship law only a nominal improvement

By Liz Fekete

1 March 1997

The Czech government has amended the controversial citizenship law which removed citizenship rights from non-Czechs who had been sentenced to any prison term during the five years prior to 31 December 1992 and excluded from citizenship all individuals without a valid long-term residence permit.

While acknowledging the new amendment, which allows for the Ministry of the Interior to waive the clean criminal record requirement on an individual basis, the ERRC criticises it as only a partial and nominal improvement.

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