Artículo 9(2) que implementa VKM + agencia especial del Ministerio del Interior (pendiente)

A person eventually naturalized through the Neni 9 state-interest channel would hold Albanian citizenship without surrendering any existing nationality. There is no renunciation-of-prior-citizenship condition anywhere in the Neni 9 text or in the Neni 8 catalogue it cross-refers, and the permissive rule is constitutionally anchored: Kushtetuta Neni 19(2) allows loss of citizenship only by voluntary renunciation, so citizenship is never stripped merely because the holder retains a foreign nationality ( Neni 19(2)). The permissive lineage runs through Ligj 8389/1998 Neni 3, which expressly allowed an Albanian citizen to also be a citizen of another state, and is carried forward by the silence of Ligj 113/2020 ( Neni 3) — dual citizenship is affirmatively permitted, not merely tolerated. Two status points are specific to this pending route. First, the restructured Neni 9 fixes the family position: new Neni 9(3) provides that family members of a person naturalized for state interest naturalize under the ordinary Neni 8 conditions and rail, not under the principal's waiver ( Neni 3(e)). Second, and decisively for status today, no citizenship — and therefore no rights — can actually attach through this route until the mandated VKM stands up the assessing agency and the operative criteria: the route confers a status only in prospect, not in fact, as of 2026-07-11. As of 2026-07-11.

The defining feature of AL-PND-03 is that its substantive eligibility criteria do not yet exist as operative law — they are precisely what the mandated Council-of-Ministers decision must fix. New Neni 9(2) expressly defers to the VKM the 'kushtet, kriteret, rrethanat, dokumentimi dhe vërtetimi i interesit shtetëror' — the conditions, criteria, circumstances, and the documentation and verification of the state interest — together with the 'rregullat specifike të kontrollit të sigurisë dhe pastërtisë së figurës', the specific security and figure-integrity vetting rules ( Neni 3(d)). Until that VKM is adopted, no concrete eligibility threshold for this special-agency assessment channel can be stated. What the STATUTE fixes directly, and what therefore already binds any future applicant, is narrow: (i) the qualifying nexus in new Neni 9(1) — the state must have an 'interes të posaçëm shtetëror' in creating a durable link with the foreigner because of the person's qualities, abilities and specific useful circumstances, or their private or public activity; and (ii) an express admissibility bar in new Neni 9(1/1): 'Interesi i posaçëm shtetëror identifikohet, mbështetet dhe garantohet përpara Presidentit të Republikës nga ministri që mbulon fushën përkatëse. Nuk pranohen aplikime sipas këtij neni pa dokumentacionin mbështetës-garantues nga këto autoritete.' ( Neni 3(ç)). No renunciation of a prior nationality is imposed anywhere in Neni 9. Everything else that would make eligibility operable — the evidentiary standard for the state interest, the vetting criteria, the assessing body's rules — is held in abeyance in the unadopted VKM, so the eligibility of this route cannot be asserted as complete as of 2026-07-11. As of 2026-07-11.

Procedurally, AL-PND-03 describes a chain that the statute sketches but does not yet complete. Neni 9 runs on a dedicated rail: Neni 9(4) — unchanged across the window arc — disapplies the ordinary State-Police filing and ministry-review machinery of Nenet 17 and 18 to Neni 9 acquisitions, so the general naturalization procedure is never a fallback here. In the restructured W6c design the chain is: (i) the sector minister identifies, supports and guarantees the special state interest before the President, and an application is inadmissible without that supporting-guaranteeing documentation — new Neni 9(1/1): 'Nuk pranohen aplikime sipas këtij neni pa dokumentacionin mbështetës-garantues nga këto autoritete' ( Neni 3(ç)); (ii) the application procedures and institutional interaction ('Procedurat e aplikimit dhe e ndërveprimit institucional'), and the examination, verification and assessment of applications, are to be fixed by the VKM and carried out by the new special MoI agency ( Neni 3(d)); (iii) lawful applications are then forwarded to the President with a grant proposal by the Minister of the Interior — new Neni 9(2/1): 'Kërkesat e vlerësuara si të ligjshme i përcillen, me propozimin për dhënien e shtetësisë, Presidentit të Republikës nga ministri përgjegjës për punët e brendshme' ( Neni 3(dh)). The controlling caveat is temporal-institutional: the Neni 9(2) VKM that must define the intake, the ndërveprim institucional and the assessing agency's procedures has NOT been verified as adopted — a probe of the kryeministria/qbz VKM stream returned no adopted instrument as of 2026-07-11, sixteen days after EIF. No complete, verifiable application-and-assessment procedure can therefore be asserted for this route today. As of 2026-07-11.

AL-PND-03 is not itself an acquisition track but the PENDING implementing apparatus that Ligj 49/2026 mandates for the state-interest naturalization power of Ligj 113/2020 Neni 9. It is a pending_implementation route: operative_today is false. The Constitution delegates the substance of extraordinary acquisition to statute — Kushtetuta Neni 19(1) provides that Albanian citizenship 'fitohet edhe për shkaqe të tjera të parashikuara me ligj' ( Neni 19(1)) — and Ligj 49/2026 Neni 3 (EIF 20.6.2026) restructures Neni 9, retitling it 'Natyralizimi për interes shtetëror' ( Neni 3(a)) and building three implementing components into it. FIRST, a delegation of all operative rules to a Council-of-Ministers decision — new Neni 9(2): 'Procedurat e aplikimit dhe e ndërveprimit institucional, kushtet, kriteret, rrethanat, dokumentimi dhe vërtetimi i interesit shtetëror, si dhe rregullat specifike të kontrollit të sigurisë dhe pastërtisë së figurës përcaktohen me vendim të Këshillit të Ministrave' ( Neni 3(d)). SECOND, an institutional mandate embedded in the same subsection: that same VKM 'përcakton gjithashtu ngritjen e një agjencie shtetërore të posaçme në varësi të ministrit përgjegjës për punët e brendshme, e cila ka kompetencë shqyrtimin, verifikimin dhe vlerësimin e aplikimeve' — the creation of a NEW special state agency under the Minister of the Interior to examine, verify and assess Neni 9 applications ( Neni 3(d)). THIRD, the grant-forwarding norm — new Neni 9(2/1): lawful applications are forwarded to the President with a grant proposal by the Minister of the Interior ( Neni 3(dh)). The statute is gazette-pinned (Fletorja Zyrtare 2026, Nr. 116, p. 10697; promulgated by Dekret nr. 333, datë 1.6.2026) and is in force; what is NOT yet in force is the VKM this section delegates to. As of 2026-07-11.

DECISION-MAKER. Albanian citizenship is granted by decree of the President of the Republic; under the restructured chain the sector minister first identifies and guarantees the state interest before the President ( Neni 3(ç)) and the Minister of the Interior forwards lawful applications to the President with a grant proposal ( Neni 3(dh)). EXISTING SPECIAL AGENCY. AHPVSH — the Agjencia e Hartimit të Programeve të Veçanta të Shtetësisë — was created under the original Neni 9(2) by VKM nr. 1008, datë 25.11.2020 ( titull), as a public, budgetary legal person 'në varësi të ministrit përgjegjës për çështjet e shtetësisë dhe azilit' seated in Tirana ( pika 1). Its statutory mission is to prepare special programmes, set highest-standard vetting and figure-integrity rules and monitor their implementation — 'përgatitjen e programeve të veçanta, përcaktimin e rregullave specifike të kontrollit të veçantë dhe të pastërtisë së figurës në standardet më të larta' ( pika 3) — and its task list expressly reaches foreigners 'që investojnë në Shqipëri' as well as contributors to education, science, art-culture, economy and sport, including examining applications and forwarding proposals to the competent authorities ( pika 7). MANDATED NEW AGENCY. Ligj 49/2026 Neni 3(d) requires the Neni 9(2) VKM to establish a NEW special state agency 'në varësi të ministrit përgjegjës për punët e brendshme' — under the Minister of the Interior — competent to examine, verify and assess Neni 9 applications and the state-interest circumstances ( Neni 3(d)). As of 2026-07-11 that VKM's adoption is unverified and the new agency's relationship to AHPVSH — supersession, absorption or coexistence — is unresolved. As of 2026-07-11.

PRIMARY (decoded verbatim from the AL _primary_texts corpus). /: Ligj 49/2026 'Për disa ndryshime dhe shtesa në ligjin nr. 113/2020, "Për shtetësinë", i ndryshuar' — promulgated by Dekret i Presidentit nr. 333, datë 1.6.2026 (Begaj) and published at Fletorja Zyrtare 2026, Numri 116 (5 qershor 2026), p. 10697; EIF 20.6.2026 per its own Neni 4 ('Ky ligj hyn në fuqi 15 ditë pas botimit në Fletoren Zyrtare'). Neni 3 restructures Neni 9: shkronja (a) retitle 'Natyralizimi për interes shtetëror'; shkronja (ç) new 9(1/1) minister-guarantee admissibility bar; shkronja (d) new 9(2) VKM-plus-new-MoI-agency mandate; shkronja (dh) new 9(2/1) MoI grant proposal.: VKM nr. 1008, datë 25.11.2020 (AHPVSH) — the existing special-programmes agency created under the original Neni 9(2); titull, pika 1 (varësia), pika 3 (mission), pika 7 (tasks incl. investors). SUPPORTING corpus for the surrounding architecture: (Ligj 113/2020 — Neni 9(4) disapplication of Nenet 17/18, Nenet 20–22 grant/oath), (Kushtetuta Neni 19(1)-(2)), (Ligj 77/2023, Neni 7 = new Neni 19/1 review), (Ligj 8389/1998 Neni 3, dual citizenship), (Ligj 49/2012, administrative courts). EVIDENCE: (pending implementing act — Art 9(2) VKM + new MoI agency, unverified as of 2026-07-11, window W6c). NLRs:. Not legal advice; verify adoption of the Neni 9(2) VKM before any reliance. As of 2026-07-11.