Restoration after voluntary loss — former SI citizen (Article 12(2) RST)

SI-RST-003 Restoration after voluntary loss former SI citizen (Article 12(2) ZDRS RST sub-paragraph). distinct operational class from Article 40/48 transitional. STANDARD route. Article 12(2) ZDRS former-citizen 6-month residence sub-path. Operative cessation modes voluntary: odpust (release Article 19) OR odrek (renunciation Article 20). Mode 3 odvzem (withdrawal Articles 25-26) OPERATIONALLY UNAVAILABLE — substantive pathway via SI-RST-002 Article 48 OR Article 13 extraordinary naturalisation.

The applicant must have held Slovenian citizenship at some prior date and lost it under a cessation mode of Article 18 ZDRS. The operative cessation modes for SI-RST-003 are voluntary: mode (1) odpust (release, Article 19 ZDRS) or mode (2) odrek (renunciation, Article 20 ZDRS). Documentary evidence:

• Prior SI citizenship: Slovenian birth certificate (where the applicant was born SI) or naturalisation certificate (where citizenship was acquired by application); historical population-register entry from the Central Population Register (Centralni register prebivalstva / CRP) showing SI-citizenship period;
• Cessation event: MNZ decision (odločba) accepting release under Article 19 or renunciation under Article 20, with the effective date of cessation noted; consular file copy where Article 20 renunciation was filed before a DCP.

Where the prior loss occurred under mode (3) — odvzem / withdrawal / deprivation under Articles 25-26 ZDRS — the Article 12(2) sub-path is operationally unavailable as a clean re-acquisition vehicle: the substantive pathway for those persons is the SI-RST-002 framework (Article 48 UPB2 later-restoration), Article 13 extraordinary naturalisation (national interest), or — where the deprivation was held disproportionate under Rottmann/Tjebbes/JY (or under domestic constitutional review) — a separate constitutional-remediation file [see Section 6 cross-references; note re mode (3) deprivees].

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1. Pre-filing diligence. The applicant assembles:

• (i) Documentary evidence of former SI citizenship: Slovenian birth certificate (if born SI) or prior naturalisation certificate; copies of any expired Slovenian passport / ID card from the citizenship period; CRP extract for the citizenship period;
• (ii) Documentary evidence of the cessation event: MNZ decision (odločba) accepting release under Article 19 ZDRS or renunciation under Article 20 ZDRS; effective-date confirmation;
• (iii) Documentary evidence of re-establishment of residence in SI: ZTuj-2 residence permit (typically permanent or long-term temporary); registered residence (CRP entry); proof of physical presence (utility bills, employment contract, school enrolment of children, etc.) covering the 6-month qualifying period;
• (iv) Standard Article 10 supporting documents: language certificate (centerslo.si Basic Level Exam A2 minimum within combined A2-B1 osnovna raven) or substitute documentation (cf. Section 3.3 condition 5); livelihood documentation (per X Ips 41/2021 broader-Vermögenslage standard); clean-criminal-record certificate from Slovenia and from any state of long-term recent residence; settled-tax confirmation; foreign-state release or assurance where required (cf. Section 3.3 condition 2);
• (v) Application form for naturalisation under Article 12 ZDRS, with the Article 12(2) sub-path expressly identified.

2. Filing. Application is filed at the upravna enota (administrative unit) of the applicant's registered SI residence; or, where the applicant does not yet have a permanent SI address but has been physically present 6 months on a long-term temporary permit, at the upravna enota of the local registration.…

Within Article 12 ZDRS:

• Article 12(1) anchors the Slovenian-emigrant-and-descendant facilitated pathway (the DSC bucket — see and SI-DSC-001), with a reduced 1-year actual-living requirement and conditions 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 of Article 10(1) carried through;
• Article 12(2) (and the immediately adjacent paragraphs, cumulatively numbered Article 12 paragraphs 2-7 in the consolidated text) bundles the additional sub-paths:
• Spouse of an SI citizen — 3 years' marriage + 1 year continuous SI residence (MAR bucket; SI-MAR-001);
• Former SI citizen who lost citizenship via release (odpust, Article 19 ZDRS) or renunciation (odrek, Article 20 ZDRS) — 6 months continuous SI residence after return (the RST bucket pathway anchoring this route);
• Minor whose parents acquire SI citizenship (derivative; cross-references Article 28 ZDRS);
• Stateless person — 5 years' continuous SI residence;
• Recognised refugee — 5 years' continuous SI residence;
• Born-in-SI person residing in SI since birth (single substantive condition: continuous…

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