Натурализация в государственных интересах

A person naturalized under Neni 9 acquires Albanian citizenship without surrendering any existing nationality. No renunciation condition appears anywhere in Ligj 113/2020 — not in the exhaustive Neni 8(1) condition list and not in Nenet 6, 8/a, 9, 10, 11 or 16 — and the permissive rule is constitutionally anchored: Kushtetuta Neni 19(2) provides 'Shtetasi shqiptar nuk mund ta humbasë shtetësinë, përveçse kur ai heq dorë prej saj', so citizenship is lost only by voluntary renunciation ( Neni 19(2)). The permissive lineage runs from Dekret 255/1992 through Ligj 8389/1998 Neni 3 ('Shtetasi shqiptar mundet të jetë edhe shtetas i një shteti tjetër') to the statutory silence of 113/2020 ( Neni 3), so dual citizenship is affirmatively permitted rather than merely tolerated. Family members receive a defined but distinct channel: under the W6c Neni 9(3) 'natyralizimi i anëtarëve të familjes së personit të natyralizuar sipas këtij neni.. u nënshtrohet kushteve dhe kërkesave të nenit 8', i.e. relatives of the state-interest naturalizee naturalize under the ordinary Neni 8 conditions and rail, not under the waiver the principal enjoys ( Neni 3(e)). The old minors-consent rule survives as Neni 9(3/1) ( Neni 3(c)). As of 2026-07-11.

Eligibility for Neni 9 turns on a STATE INTEREST rather than residence or integration thresholds, and it has migrated across three windows. In the W6a text (operative 14.10.2020–20.6.2024) the applicant had to be a foreign citizen who 'ka mbushur moshën 18 (tetëmbëdhjetë) vjeç', who 'nuk përbën kërcënim për rendin publik dhe sigurinë kombëtare', and in whose case Albania had a national interest or an interest 'në fushën e arsimit, shkencës, artit, kulturës, ekonomisë e sportit' ( Neni 9(1)). Ligj 77/2023 Neni 3 deleted the 'që ka mbushur moshën 18' phrase and Neni 4 inserted a new 9(1/1) letting a foreigner under 18 acquire citizenship under 9(1) only with the consent of both parents or the legal guardian, plus the child's own consent at ages 14–18 ( Ligj 77/2023 Nenet 3-4). In the current W6c text the qualifying nexus is deliberately broad: the state must have an 'interes të posaçëm shtetëror për krijimin e një lidhjeje të qëndrueshme me personin e huaj' owing to the person's 'cilësive, aftësive dhe rrethanave specifike të dobishme' or to their private or public activity ( Neni 3(b)). No renunciation of prior nationality is ever required. What Neni 9 waives from the ordinary Neni 8 catalogue, and the security screen that persists, are treated in residence_requirements; the completeness of the current application channel is qualified by.

Unlike the ordinary seven-year route (AL-NAT-01), Neni 9 is designed to BYPASS the residence and integration prerequisites of Neni 8. The W6c granting norm acquires citizenship 'jashtë kushteve të përcaktuara në nenin 8.. për moshën, njohuritë gjuhësore e historike, si dhe afatin e qëndrimit të ligjshëm' — i.e. outside the Art 8 conditions on age, on language and history knowledge, and on the duration of lawful stay ( Neni 3(b)). The consular-oath option (Neni 21) confirms the design contemplates acquirers who reside abroad and need never have established residence in Albania. The precise reach of the waiver is the one point on which the tiers diverge: the conservative reading confines the waiver to the three enumerated elements and flags that the enumeration does not cleanly dispose of the permanent-residence-permit limb of Neni 8(1)(c), while the liberal reading treats letter (c) as waived in its entirety because its permanent-permit limb exists only in service of the stay requirement. Neither the housing/income conditions nor the character bars of Neni 8(1) are enumerated as waived, so on the conservative view they are not disturbed. What is NOT waived in any reading is the public-order/national-security screen carried from the W6a text — 'nuk përbën kërcënim për rendin publik dhe sigurinë kombëtare' ( Neni 9(1)) — and, in W6c, the sector-minister guarantee described in procedure. All temporal qualifiers as of 2026-07-11.

Neni 9 runs on its own procedural rail. Neni 9(4) — textually untouched by both Ligj 77/2023 and Ligj 49/2026 — provides that 'Parashikimet e neneve 17 dhe 18 të këtij ligji nuk zbatohen në rastet e fitimit të shtetësisë sipas këtij neni', so the ordinary State-Police filing channel, the one-month security verification and the six-month ministry review that govern Neni 8 applications DO NOT apply here ( Neni 9(4);). In the current W6c architecture the chain instead runs: (i) the special state interest 'identifikohet, mbështetet dhe garantohet përpara Presidentit të Republikës nga ministri që mbulon fushën përkatëse', and an application is 'nuk pranohen.. pa dokumentacionin mbështetës-garantues' from that authority — an express admissibility bar ( Neni 3(ç)); (ii) the procedures, criteria, state-interest documentation and security/character-vetting rules are to be fixed by a Council-of-Ministers VKM, which must ALSO establish a new special state agency under the Minister of the Interior to examine, verify and assess applications ( Neni 3(d)); (iii) lawful applications are forwarded to the President with a grant proposal by the Minister of the Interior ( Neni 3(dh) — new 9(2/1)). The controlling caveat is temporal-institutional: as of 2026-07-11 that Neni 9(2) implementing VKM has NOT been verified as adopted, so no complete, verifiable application-and-assessment channel can be asserted today. The oath may be taken consularly, as set out in vesting_and_effect.

Naturalization for state interest is the discretionary track at Ligj 113/2020 Neni 9, a power the Constitution delegates to statute: Kushtetuta Neni 19(1) provides that Albanian citizenship 'fitohet edhe për shkaqe të tjera të parashikuara me ligj' ( Neni 19(1)), and Neni 9 supplies one such statutory ground. As originally enacted (FZ 2020/174 f.12305) the article was titled 'Rastet e veçanta të fitimit të shtetësisë shqiptare' and opened 'Shtetësia shqiptare mund të fitohet nga shtetasi i huaj' where Albania has a national interest or an interest in education, science, art, culture, economy or sport ( Neni 9(1)). Ligj 77/2023 then reworked the opening — deleting the age phrase and adding a minors rule — and Ligj 49/2026 Neni 3 (EIF 20.6.2026) rewrote the article wholesale, retitling it 'Natyralizimi për interes shtetëror' ( Neni 3(a)). The operative granting norm today is the new Neni 9(1): 'I huaji fiton shtetësinë shqiptare jashtë kushteve të përcaktuara në nenin 8.. për moshën, njohuritë gjuhësore e historike, si dhe afatin e qëndrimit të ligjshëm' where the state has a special interest in a durable link with the person ( Neni 3(b)). Crucially the statute carries NO renunciation-of-prior-citizenship condition in any variant; dual citizenship is retained. The route is operative as of 2026-07-11, subject to the implementing-VKM gap flagged at.

DECISION-MAKER: Albanian citizenship is granted by decree of the President of the Republic; in the W6c chain the sector minister identifies and guarantees the state interest before the President ( Neni 3(ç)) and the Minister of the Interior forwards lawful applications to the President with a grant proposal ( Neni 3(dh)). SPECIAL AGENCY (existing): AHPVSH — the Agjencia e Hartimit të Programeve të Veçanta të Shtetësisë — was created by VKM nr. 1008, datë 25.11.2020 (FZ 2020/221) under the original Neni 9(2), as a 'person juridik publik, buxhetor, në varësi të ministrit përgjegjës për çështjet e shtetësisë dhe azilit', seated in Tirana; its mission is drafting special programs, setting highest-standard vetting and character rules, and monitoring implementation, and its task list expressly reaches foreigners 'që investojnë në Shqipëri' as well as contributors to education, science, art-culture, economy and sport, including reviewing applications and forwarding proposals to competent authorities ( VKM 1008/2020 pika 1, 3, 7). SPECIAL AGENCY (mandated, unverified): Ligj 49/2026 Neni 3(d) requires the Neni 9(2) VKM to establish a NEW special state agency under the Minister of the Interior to examine, verify and assess Neni 9 applications; as of 2026-07-11 that VKM's adoption is unverified and the new agency's relationship to AHPVSH — supersession, absorption or coexistence — is unresolved. As of 2026-07-11.