Гражданство по происхождению — оба родителя являются гражданами.

ME-DSC-01 is the purest jus sanguinis pathway to Montenegrin citizenship: the acquisition by origin (porijeklom) of a child both of whose parents are Montenegrin citizens at the instant of birth. Article 4 of the Law on Montenegrin Citizenship (Zakon o crnogorskom drzavljanstvu, Sl. list CG 13/2008 as consolidated through 77/2024) enumerates exactly four acquisition modes — (1) by origin/descent (porijeklom); (2) by birth on the territory of Montenegro (rodjenjem na teritoriji); (3) by admission/naturalization (prijemom); and (4) by ratified international treaties and agreements. Origin is mode (1), and Article 5(1) is its primary case. The rule is unconditional as to place of birth: a child of two Montenegrin-citizen parents acquires citizenship whether born inside Montenegro or anywhere abroad in the diaspora, and there is no registration deadline, age cap, or residence requirement attached to it (those qualifiers attach only to the one-parent variants in Arts 5(2)-(4) and 6). Acquisition is automatic by operation of law at birth; the administrative determination (utvrdjivanje drzavljanstva) and entry in the register of Montenegrin citizens are declaratory and evidentiary, not constitutive. Because Article 1 of the Law expressly states that Montenegrin citizenship 'does not indicate national or ethnic origin,' the both-parents rule is a status-of-parentage test, not an ethnicity test. This is a signature route: it is the most frequently invoked and least contestable basis of Montenegrin nationality and the anchor against which every other descent variant is measured.

The governing provision is Article 5(1). The native operative text reads: 'Crnogorsko drzavljanstvo porijeklom stice dijete: 1) cija su oba roditelja u trenutku njegovog rodjenja crnogorski drzavljani.' The authoritative English consolidation (NATLEX, through 77/2024) renders it: 'Montenegrin citizenship by origin is acquired by a child: 1) whose parents are both Montenegrin citizens at the time of his birth.' This sits under Article 4's enumeration of the four acquisition modes and the chapter heading 'II. Sticanje crnogorskog drzavljanstva — 1. Sticanje crnogorskog drzavljanstva porijeklom.' Its constitutional root is Article 12 of the Constitution of Montenegro (Sl. list CG 1/2007, in force 22 Oct 2007) — 'In Montenegro there is Montenegrin citizenship' — which establishes the status but delegates the ways and conditions of acquisition and loss to statute; Article 1 of the Law accepts that delegation ('Ovim zakonom uredjuju se nacini i uslovi sticanja i gubitka crnogorskog drzavljanstva'). Amendment history: the 2008 Law was amended by Sl. list CG 40/2010, 28/2011, 46/2011, 20/2014 (which is itself a Constitutional Court / Ustavni sud annulment decision, not a Skupstina amendment), 54/2016, 73/2019 and 77/2024 (5 Aug 2024, the latest). A clean article-by-article diff of the through-73/2019 native text against the through-77/2024 English consolidation confirms that Article 5 was UNCHANGED across the entire cascade; the sole substantive change made by 77/2024 was a new Article 37(2) authorizing citizens'-register data use for statistics and census — purely administrative and outside the descent regime. The both-parents rule is therefore stable and current as of 2026.