Registro por casamento com cidadão de Santa Lúcia

Cenários de exemplo

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• Eligible via LC-MAR-01 if conditions of Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, Cap. 1.04, s.6(1)(a)/(2)(a); Constitution s.102(1)(a)/(2)(a) are met.

  A person married to a citizen (or formerly married to a person who at any time during the marriage was a citizen) is ENTITLED on application in the prescribed form to be registered as a citizen (Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, Cap. 1.04, s.6(1)(a) female limb / s.6(2)(a) male limb; Constitution s.102(1)(a)/(2)(a)). The entitlement survives termination of the marriage. The Minister shall, if satisfied of entitlement, grant a certificate of registration (s.6(7)). Marriage registration sits within the omnibus s.6 registration framework (REG-01).

• Outcome turns on the precise statutory condition; see TRC tiers.

  Present LC-MAR-01 as a strong, entitlement-based spousal route: a person married to (or formerly married to, during the marriage to) a Saint Lucia citizen is ENTITLED on application in the prescribed form to be registered as a citizen (Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, Cap. 1.04, s.6(1)(a) wife / s.6(2)(a) husband; Constitution s.102(1)(a)/(2)(a)); the right survives divorce or the citizen-spouse's death, and on satisfaction the Minister SHALL grant a certificate (s.6(7)) that is conclusive evidence of citizenship from its date. State plainly that no residence, language, good-character or renunciation precondition is attached to the s.6(1)(a) limb; flag the s.6(6) gendered-asymmetry NLR (the discretionary-refusal grounds by their text reach 'an application under subsection (2)', which textually includes the male-spouse limb s.6(2)(a) but not the female-spouse limb s.6(1)(a)).

• Eligible via LC-MAR-01: entitlement under s.6(1)(a) / Const s.102(1)(a).

  A woman who is married to a citizen (or has been married to a person who at any time during the marriage was a citizen) is ENTITLED upon application in the prescribed form to be registered as a citizen (Cit Act s.6(1)(a); Const s.102(1)(a); LC-ASSERT-051). No residence, language, good-character or renunciation precondition attaches to this subsection-(1) entitlement, and the s.6(6) discretionary-refusal grounds by their text reach only applications 'under subsection (2)' (LC-ASSERT-054). On satisfaction the Minister SHALL grant a certificate of registration, conclusive evidence of citizenship from its date (s.6(7); LC-ASSERT-053). As of continuously since 22 February 1979.

• Eligible via LC-MAR-01 (s.6(2)(a)), but with an NLR gender-asymmetry caveat on the s.6(6) refusal grounds.

  A man married to (or formerly married to, during the marriage to) a citizen is ENTITLED upon application to be registered (Cit Act s.6(2)(a); Const s.102(2)(a); LC-ASSERT-051). However, the male-spouse limb sits in s.6(2)(a), and the s.6(6) discretionary-refusal grounds (good character, English, security, residence, criminal/drug conviction) by their text reach 'an application under subsection (2)' — so a male spouse's entitlement is textually within the s.6(6) refusal universe, while the female-spouse limb (s.6(1)(a)) is not (LC-NLR-054, LOW; LC-ASSERT-054). This gendered asymmetry is flagged; the entitlement itself is strong, and the constitutional limbs (Const s.102(1)(a)/(2)(a)) are materially parallel. As of continuously since 22 February 1979.

• Eligible via LC-MAR-01: the spousal entitlement survives termination of the marriage.

  The spouse-registration entitlement survives termination of the marriage: it suffices that the applicant 'has been married to a person who at any time during the period of [the] marriage was a citizen' — the statute does not require the marriage to be subsisting at the time of application (Cit Act s.6(1)(a)/(2)(a); Const s.102(1)(a)/(2)(a); LC-ASSERT-052). A widow of a Saint Lucian citizen is therefore entitled to register notwithstanding the citizen-spouse's death. The same logic applies to a divorced former spouse. As of continuously since 22 February 1979.

• NOT eligible via the spousal limb: the partner must have been a citizen at some time DURING the marriage.

  The spousal entitlement requires marriage to a citizen, or having been married to a person 'who at any time during the period of [the] marriage was a citizen' (Cit Act s.6(1)(a)/(2)(a); LC-ASSERT-051/052). Where the former partner acquired Saint Lucian citizenship only AFTER the marriage had ended, that condition is not met — the applicant was never married to a citizen during the marriage. The applicant would need another route (e.g. registration as a derivative spouse only if the partner was entitled under s.6(1)(b)-(d) during the marriage — LC-REG-01, LC-ASSERT-063). As of continuously since 22 February 1979.