A Citizenship Act (or a variant thereof) is a piece of legislation, used to regulate citizenship within a country. Many countries have, or have had, laws bearing the name.

List of Citizenship Acts

* Australia:

Australian Citizenship Act 1948 Australian nationality law details the conditions in which a person holds Australian legal nationality. The primary law governing nationality regulations is the Australian Citizenship Act 2007, which Coming into force, came into force on 1 July ...

, replaced by the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 * Bhutan: **

Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1958 The Bhutanese Citizenship Act of 1958, officially the Nationality Law of Bhutan, 1958, is a decree by the Druk Gyalpo King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, recognizing the definition of a Bhutanese citizen. The Act was amended in 1977 and then superseded by ...

Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1985 Bhutanese nationality law is the law governing the acquisition, transmission and loss of Bhutanese citizenship. The Bhutanese Citizenship Act of 1985 was introduced by the Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuck, on June 10, 1985, modifying the definit ...

* Canada: **

Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946 The ''Canadian Citizenship Act'' (french: Loi sur la citoyenneté canadienne) was a statute passed by the Parliament of Canada in 1946 which created the legal status of Canadian citizenship. The Act defined who were Canadian citizens, separ ...

** Canadian Citizenship Act, 1977 * India: Citizenship Act, 1955 * Ireland: there have been several Irish Nationality and Citizenship Acts in Irish nationality law * New Zealand: British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948 * Slovakia:

Citizenship Act (Slovakia) Slovak nationality law is the law governing the acquisition, transmission and loss of Slovak citizenship. The Citizenship Act is a law enacted by the National Council of Slovakia in regard to the nationality law following the dissolution of Czec ...

* South Africa:

Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970 The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970 (Act No. 26 of 1970; subsequently renamed the Black States Citizenship Act, 1970 and the National States Citizenship Act, 1970) was a Self Determination or denaturalization law passed during the aparthei ...

, subsequently renamed the Black States Citizenship Act, 1970, and repealed in 1994 * Sri Lanka (Ceylon):

Ceylon Citizenship Act The Ceylon Citizenship Act No. 18 of 1948 was a controversial law passed by the Ceylon Parliament which did not grant citizenship to Indian Tamils, who were 11% of the population. Background During the 19th and early 20th centuries the Britis ...

, 1948 * United Kingdom:

Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 Australian nationality law details the conditions in which a person holds Australian legal nationality. The primary law governing nationality regulations is the Australian Citizenship Act 2007, which came into force on 1 July 2007 and is appli ...

* United States: **

Indian Citizenship Act The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, (, enacted June 2, 1924) was an Act of the United States Congress that granted US citizenship to the indigenous peoples of the United States. While the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitutio ...

, 1924 **

Child Citizenship Act of 2000 The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 (CCA) is a United States federal law that amended the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 regarding acquisition of citizenship by children of US citizens and added protections for individuals who have voted i ...

Citizenship Reform Act of 2005 The proposed Citizenship Reform Act of 2005 () was a U.S. congressional bill introduced in the 109th United States Congress by Re. Nathan Deal ( R- GA). The legislation aimed to deny birthright citizenship to individuals born in the United States ...

US Citizenship Act of 2021 The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 is a legislative bill that was proposed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office. It was formally introduced in the House by Representative Linda Sánchez. The bill would make sweeping changes across th ...

List of Citizenship Acts

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