Re-acquisition under original §7 (transitional restoration)

Act 100/1952 §18 (introduced by L. 11/2020 art [§18 insertion] EIF 2020-04-01) creates a specific restoration pathway for persons who lost Icelandic citizenship under original §7 (automatic loss upon acquisition of foreign citizenship). The provision allows such persons to petition UTL to restore their Icelandic citizenship, subject to fulfillment of the §12 residency requirement (dvalarskilyrði) [pins: IS-SRC-001 + IS-SRC-003 + IS-SRC-020].

The core conditions under §18:

1. Loss under original §7: the applicant must have lost Icelandic citizenship specifically because they acquired foreign citizenship during the period when original §7's automatic-loss mechanism was operative (i.e., before L. 9/2003 EIF 2003-07-01)

2. UTL petition: unlike the declaration routes (§3, §4), §18 is a petition-based route requiring UTL consideration rather than a pure entitlement-based declaration

Who is within scope

This route is specifically designed for:

• Icelandic citizens who emigrated before 2003 and naturalized in a receiving country (e.g., Canada, USA, Denmark, Sweden), thereby automatically losing Icelandic citizenship under old §7
• Their children who may have been affected derivatively
• Individuals who may not have realized they lost citizenship because of the automatic nature of the loss mechanism

This route is NOT applicable to:

• Persons who lost citizenship under §12 (age-22 automatic loss for those born abroad) — those persons use IS-DSC-RE-ACQUISITION-2Y-01 (§4) or IS-NAT-06 (§8(1) item 5)
• Persons whose loss occurred for reasons other than §7 automatic-loss

Temporal scope

The loss must have occurred while original §7 was operative — i.e., before L. 9/2003 EIF 2003-07-01. Persons who acquired foreign citizenship after 2003-07-01 did not lose Icelandic citizenship under §7 (as L. 9/2003 removed the automatic-loss rule) and therefore are not within §18's scope [pins: IS-SRC-001 + IS-SRC-003].

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1. Elegibilidad para la investigación: confirmar que la ciudadanía se perdió específicamente según el §7 original (no el §12 u otros mecanismos); obtener registros de Þjóðskrá que demuestren la antigua ciudadanía del EI

2. Petición a UTL — presentar una petición conforme al §18 con documentación de respaldo

3. §12 documentación dvalarskilyrði — proporcionar evidencia de lögheimili actual o previsto en Islandia, u otra conexión

4. Revisión UTL — UTL revisa las circunstancias de la pérdida original (para confirmar la aplicabilidad del §7) y evalúa la satisfacción del §12

5. decisión UTL — restauración confirmada o rechazada

6. Registro Þjóðskrá — tras una decisión positiva, se restablece el estatus de ciudadanía y se actualiza la kennitala

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• Tarifa de petición UTL: por UTL gjaldskrá
• No se requiere prueba de idioma (la prueba de idioma es una condición de naturalización §9, no una condición de restauración §18)
• Þjóðskrá registro: tarifa estándar

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