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. Elegibilidade para pesquisa — confirmar que a cidadania foi perdida especificamente sob o §7 original (não o §12 ou outros mecanismos); obter registros Þjóðskrá mostrando a antiga cidadania do Estado Islâmico

2. Petição à UTL — apresentar petição sob §18 com documentação de apoio

3. §12 documentação dvalarskilyrði — fornecer evidência de lögheimili atual ou pretendida na Islândia, ou outra conexão

4. Revisão UTL — UTL analisa as circunstâncias da perda original (para confirmar a aplicabilidade do §7) e avalia §12 satisfação

5. decisão UTL — restauração confirmada ou recusada

6. Þjóðskrá registro — mediante decisão positiva, status de cidadania restaurado e kennitala atualizado

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• Taxa de petição UTL: por UTL gjaldskrá
• Sem exigência de teste de idioma (o teste de idioma é uma condição de naturalização §9, não uma condição de restauração §18)
• Þregistro de jóðskrá: taxa padrão

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