Adoption before age 7 by Panamanian nationals

Example scenarios

• Eligible via this route if conditions of Const Art 11 are met.

  Foreign-born persons adopted before age 7 by Panamanian nationals are Panamanian by constitutional disposition. VIGENTE: nationality vests from registration of the adoption in the Panamanian Civil Registry (the only 2004 Titulo II change; see PA-HIS-04 for the pre-2004 domicile+declaration form).

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

  For adoptions completed and registered after 15 Nov 2004 (Texto Unico G.O. 25,176), PA-ADP-01 is administratively simple and automatic: nationality vests upon inscription of the adoption in the Registro Civil panameno, with no residence, language, presence, oath, or renunciation burden — this is a constitutional-disposition route (Art 8), not naturalization. The best-supported operative reading is tier_2 moderate. Practitioners should (a) confirm the exact pre-2004 Art 11 verbatim wording at QA before publication (P1.5 decode diff vs ); (b) NOT assert Art 13 natural-

• Yuki · nationality: adopted from Japan at age 4

  Panamanian by constitutional disposition

  Art 11 (vigente): foreign-born adopted before age 7 by Panamanians acquire nationality from the moment the adoption is registered in the Civil Registry.

• Tomas · nationality: adopted at age 8

  Art 11 route unavailable (over age 7)

  Art 11 requires adoption BEFORE age 7; an older adoptee is not covered by the constitutional-disposition route.