Historical — Junta cessation era (Reform Arc 3 anchor)

GR-HIS-02 is a HISTORICAL, closed documentary cohort recording the deprivation of Greek nationality during the 1967-1974 colonels' junta — the dictatorship's stripping of political opponents, exiles, dissident artists and intellectuals of their citizenship. As of 2026-06-05 there is no live route: no statute lets a person 'apply under GR-HIS-02' today, because the junta enacted no bespoke cessation law and because those deprived were generally restored on the 24-July-1974 metapolitefsi (the live counterpart record is GR-RST-01). It is documented for completeness and to keep it distinct from the ex-Art 19 ethnic-deprivation cohort (GR-HIS-05/GR-RST-03) and the Civil-War ethnic-Macedonian cohort (GR-HIS-03).

No live eligibility exists. Historically, a person fell within the junta-deprivation cohort if the 1967-1974 regime stripped them of Greek nationality on political grounds (anti-regime exiles, opposition figures, dissident artists/intellectuals). There are no present-day criteria to 'be restored under GR-HIS-02' because no statute provides for it: those alive in 1974 were reinstated on the metapolitefsi (GR-RST-01), and modern descendants qualify only through ordinary jus-sanguinis descent (Art 1, GR-DSC-01). As of 2026-06-05 no membership of this cohort confers any standing application right.

No language/civics test attaches to this historical cohort directly. If a descendant cannot show descent and pursues ordinary allogeneis naturalisation (GR-NAT-01), the ΠΕΓΠ written exam (Greek at a B1-analogous level plus Geography/History/Culture/Institutions, mandatory from 1.4.2021) applies; ομογενείς and most descent claimants are exempt. The test is a feature of the residual naturalisation route, not of GR-HIS-02. Descent recognition (the normal pathway for this cohort's descendants) carries no language exam.

No application-document set exists because there is no live route. For the residual modern pathway (ordinary descent, GR-DSC-01), the documents are those of a jus-sanguinis claim: proof that a restored Greek-national ancestor was Greek at the claimant's birth, evidenced through municipal-roll registration (Δημοτολόγιο) and, for older male lines, the Μητρώο Αρρένων (Male Registry), plus civil records and older Greek passports. For the rare ομογενής-naturalisation fallback (Art 10), consular origin documentation applies. Foreign documents need apostille (1961 Hague) + official Greek translation, with EU civil-status documents accepted under Reg. 2016/1191 without apostille.

There is no live process. Historically, deprivation occurred administratively (ex-Art 19 ΝΔ 3370/1955 + Constituent Acts + individual ministerial measures), and the 1974 restoration was a one-off general nullification-and-restoration effected through the metapolitefsi's constitutional-act framework (Συντακτική Πράξη 1-8-1974 + pre-existing provisions) — not a standing application channel. As of 2026-06-05 those measures are spent. A modern descendant follows the GR-DSC-01 descent process (declaratory recognition / διαπιστωτική πράξη via consulate or Regional Citizenship Directorate), which belongs to that route, not to GR-HIS-02.

Not applicable to a closed cohort with no live route — the historical deprivation/restoration episode itself was essentially complete by 1974-75. For residual routes only: ordinary naturalisation runs on a 7-year continuous-residence prerequisite plus processing; declaratory descent recognition (διαπιστωτική πράξη) is reported at roughly 18 months. These timelines belong to GR-NAT-01 / GR-DSC-01, not to GR-HIS-02, which has no processing pipeline of its own.

Era timeline: junta in power 1967-1974; deprivations effected through ex-Art 19 ΝΔ 3370/1955 + Constituent Acts 1967-68 + individual ministerial measures (Mercouri stripped 12/13 Jul 1967); general restoration from the 24-Jul-1974 metapolitefsi. These sit in Era_Map window W4 (ND 3370/1955 founding-Code arc, post-WWII codified nationality regime). The deprivation-and-reversal was essentially complete by 1974-75; the route's status is HISTORICAL/closed and has not changed as of 2026-06-05. The wider ex-Art 19 mechanism remained in force until its prospective repeal in 1998 (a separate cohort).

Historically the junta-era Ministry of Interior administered the deprivations, and the returning Karamanlis government administered the 1974 restoration. For any residual modern acquisition route, competence lies with the ordinary nationality authorities: the Central/Regional Citizenship Directorates (Κεντρική/Περιφερειακές Διευθύνσεις Ιθαγένειας) under the General Secretariat for Citizenship, Ministry of Interior, for naturalisation, and the Regional Directorate / Greek consulate for declaratory descent recognition. No authority today processes a 'GR-HIS-02 restoration' because none exists in law (as of 2026-06-05).

Edge case — person deprived who died in exile before 1974: their reinstatement could not occur personally, but a child born to them while they were (or had been) Greek may still claim by ordinary descent through the pre-deprivation Greek status, since transmission keys to the parent's nationality at the child's birth. Edge case — overlap with ex-Art 19: a few individuals could in principle have been caught by BOTH the political junta strippings AND the parallel ethnic ex-Art 19 mechanism; only the political deprivation was reversed in 1974, so an ethnic-deprivation overlay would NOT be cured by the metapolitefsi (it follows the no-restoration logic of GR-RST-03). Edge case — statelessness: a cohort member rendered genuinely stateless and never restored could in principle access the facilitated 3-year stateless naturalisation track, but that is acquisition, not restoration.