אזרחות לפי מוצא - הורה אחד + לידה/רישום

ME-DSC-02 is the one-parent jus sanguinis cluster: acquisition of Montenegrin citizenship by origin (porijeklom) where only ONE parent is a Montenegrin citizen, with a place-of-birth or registration element supplying the second leg. It bundles four statutory variants. Article 5(2): a child with one Montenegrin-citizen parent who is BORN IN MONTENEGRO acquires citizenship automatically — the sole territorial element in the origin chapter, but still NOT pure jus soli because a Montenegrin-citizen parent is indispensable. Article 5(3): a child with one Montenegrin-citizen parent, where the other parent is stateless, of unknown citizenship, or unknown, born on the territory of another state, acquires automatically (an anti-statelessness descent rule). Article 5(4): a child with one Montenegrin-citizen parent born abroad acquires if he would otherwise remain stateless (operationalizing Art 4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, in force for Montenegro since 5 Dec 2013). Article 6(1): a child born abroad to one Montenegrin-citizen parent, who does NOT hold the other parent's citizenship, acquires by origin IF an application for entry in the birth register and the register of Montenegrin citizens is filed before the child turns 18 — the registration-before-18 sub-route, with the child's own consent additionally required if he is over 14. Together these cover the cross-border and mixed-nationality families that are the typical Montenegrin diaspora reality. It is a signature route because the one-parent variants carry the genuine eligibility complexity (deadlines, statelessness tests, consent) absent from the both-parents case.

Governing provisions: Article 5 paragraphs (2)-(4) and Article 6(1) with its final paragraph. Native text Art 5: 'Crnogorsko drzavljanstvo porijeklom stice dijete:.. 2) ciji je jedan roditelj u trenutku rodjenja djeteta crnogorski drzavljanin, a rodjeno je u Crnoj Gori; 3) ciji je jedan roditelj u trenutku rodjenja djeteta crnogorski drzavljanin, drugi je bez drzavljanstva ili nepoznatog drzavljanstva ili je nepoznat, a rodjeno je na teritoriji druge drzave; 4) ciji je jedan roditelj u trenutku rodjenja djeteta crnogorski drzavljanin, a rodjeno je na teritoriji druge drzave, ukoliko ostaje bez drzavljanstva.' Native text Art 6(1): 'Crnogorsko drzavljanstvo porijeklom stice i: 1) dijete rodjeno na teritoriji druge drzave, ciji je jedan roditelj u trenutku rodjenja djeteta crnogorski drzavljanin, ako se do navrsene 18. godine zivota podnese prijava za upis u maticnu knjigu rodjenih i registar crnogorskih drzavljana, a nema drzavljanstvo drugog roditelja.' Art 6 final paragraph: 'Ako je dijete iz stava 1 tacka 1 ovog clana starije od 14 godina zivota, za sticanje crnogorskog drzavljanstva potreban je i njegov pristanak.' The NATLEX English (through 77/2024) confirms each. Constitutional anchor: Art 12 of the Constitution (Sl. list CG 1/2007) and Art 1 of the Law. Amendment history: Articles 5 and 6 were UNCHANGED across the 13/2008 → 40/2010 → 28/2011 → 46/2011 → 20/2014 (Constitutional Court annulment) → 54/2016 → 73/2019 → 77/2024 cascade; 77/2024 altered only Art 37. A transitional origin rule also applies: Art 41v (final paragraph) deems a person born in Montenegro whose one or both parents were entered in the citizens' evidence at birth, and who is in the birth register but not the citizens' register, to acquire citizenship BY ORIGIN — bridging register-entry gaps for the founding/post-2006 cohort.