Adoption — International (Hague 1993 framework)

Escenarios de ejemplo

• The child becomes Greek ex lege on the day the adoption is legally complete; the Convention adoption is recognised in Greece by operation of Article 23, and no separate nationality application, residence period or fee is required.

  Art 3 ΚΕΙ (minor adopted by a Greek becomes Greek ex lege) + 1993 Hague Convention Articles 17/23 (cross-border procedure and automatic recognition); both States are Hague parties (GR-EV-034, GR-EV-035).

• The child is Greek from the adoption date under Art 3; the practical next step is recording the child in the Greek municipal rolls and issuing the passport — a recording step, not an acquisition condition.

  Art 3 ΚΕΙ applies to adoption by a Greek man OR woman, including a single adopter; the Hague overlay provides the recognised procedure (GR-EV-034, GR-EV-035).

• No Greek nationality is conferred. Art 3 confers nationality only on a person adopted as a MINOR; adoption of an adult does not confer nationality, and the Hague overlay does not change this substantive limit.

  Art 3 ΚΕΙ minority condition (adult adoption excluded) — GR-EV-034. The adult would instead have to pursue a separate naturalisation route if otherwise eligible.

• The Hague Article 23 automatic-recognition machinery is unavailable; the foreign adoption must first be recognised in Greece under Civil Code conflict-of-laws rules, after which Art 3 confers Greek nationality on the minor. The nationality rule is identical; only the recognition pathway differs.

  Convention applies only between Contracting States; outside it, recognition runs through the domestic adoption substrate (GR-EV-035, GR-EV-036), then Art 3 attaches (GR-EV-034). NLR-24 flags the CC-article substrate.

• This is NOT an acquisition under GR-ADP-02. It is the mirror loss case: under Art 20 ΚΕΙ the Greek minor MAY lose Greek nationality (on the adopter's application, by Ministerial decision after a Citizenship-Council opinion) if the child acquires the adopter's nationality — but loss is barred where military obligations are outstanding or a prosecution is pending.

  Art 20 ΚΕΙ (loss by adoption-by-a-foreigner) — GR-EV-084. Redirect from the acquisition route to the loss provision; the safeguards (military/prosecution bars) apply.