מוצא - רישום בגיר/מאוחר (נולד ב-ME או תושב לפני גיל 18)

ME-DSC-03 is the youth / late-acquisition cluster for people with a Montenegrin tie who did not (or could not) acquire at birth or by the before-18 registration route. It bundles two distinct statutory mechanisms. First, Article 6(2): a person who has reached 18, one of whose parents is a Montenegrin citizen and the other a citizen of another country, acquires Montenegrin citizenship BY ORIGIN if he files a request for entry in the register of Montenegrin citizens before turning 23, provided he does not already hold the other parent's citizenship. This is the adult continuation of the Art 6(1) before-18 registration route — a five-year grace window (18 to 23) for those who aged out of the minor's deadline. Second, Article 15: a person born in Montenegro, OR a person born abroad who legally and continuously resided in Montenegro before turning 18, may acquire Montenegrin citizenship BY ADMISSION (prijemom) on a facilitated condition-set drawn from Art 8(1). Although Art 15 is structurally a naturalization provision (chapter 3, prijem) rather than an origin provision, it is grouped here because it serves the same youth/territorial-tie population and is the practical fallback when the Art 6(2) origin window has closed or the parental link does not fit. The route is operative today (Arts 6 and 15 unchanged through the 77/2024 consolidation) but is non-signature: its legal mechanics are derivative of Arts 5/6 (origin) and Art 8 (naturalization) already carried by the signature routes.

Two provisions govern. Article 6(2), native: 'Crnogorsko drzavljanstvo porijeklom stice i:.. 2) lice koje je navrsilo 18 godina zivota, ciji je jedan roditelj crnogorski drzavljanin, a drugi je drzavljanin druge drzave, ako do navrsene 23. godine zivota podnese zahtjev za upis u registar crnogorskih drzavljana, a nema drzavljanstvo drugog roditelja.' NATLEX English: 'a person who has reached 18 years of age, one of whose parents is a Montenegrin citizen, and the other is a citizen of another country, if he submits a request for entry in the register of Montenegrin citizens by the age of 23, and does not have the citizenship of the other parent.' Article 15, native: 'Lice koje je rodjeno u Crnoj Gori i lice koje je rodjeno na teritoriji druge drzave, a prije navrsene 18. godine zivota zakonito i neprekidno boravi u Crnoj Gori, moze steci crnogorsko drzavljanstvo prijemom ako ispunjava uslove iz clana 8 stav 1 tac. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 i 8 ovog zakona.' Art 15 thus incorporates by reference Art 8(1) items 1 (age 18), 2 (release from prior citizenship), 3 (10 years legal continuous residence), 5 (no unconditional prison sentence over one year), 7 (no security/defence obstacle) and 8 (settled tax/legal obligations); it omits — i.e., waives — item 4 (secured accommodation and income) and item 6 (Montenegrin-language knowledge). Critically, item 3 (the 10-year residence requirement) is NOT waived by Art 15. Constitutional anchor: Art 12 of the Constitution and Art 1 of the Law. Amendment history: Articles 6 and 15 were UNCHANGED across the 13/2008 → 40/2010 → 28/2011 → 46/2011 → 20/2014 (Constitutional Court annulment) → 54/2016 → 73/2019 → 77/2024 cascade; the only 77/2024 change was to Art 37 (register data for statistics/census).