ACQUISITION OF PORTUGUESE NATIONALITY | CIVIL PARTNERSHIP | PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY | GROWING IMMIGRATION PRESSUR

 

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 605/2013, 24.09.2013

 

JURISDICTION: Constitutional

CASE: 156/2012

SUBJECT: Constitutional appeal

RAPPORTEUR: Maria Lúcia Amaral

RULING: The Constitutional Courts decides not to hold Article 3(3) of the Nationality Act as unconstitutional and therefore grants the appeal, ordering that the appealed judgment be amended in what concerns the constitutionality matter.

DOMESTIC LAW:

Portuguese Constitution [Articles 4, 26(1), 202]

Law no. 28/82, of 15 November 1982 [Article 70(1)(a)]

Law no. 37/81, of 3 October 1981, as amended by Organic Law no. 2/2006, of 17 April 2006 (Articles 3, 16, 25, 26)

Law no. 37/81, of 3 October 1981, original version [Article 3(1)]

Organic Law no. 2/2006, of 17 April 2006 (Articles 1, 8)

Law no. 2098, of 29 July 1959

Decree-Law no. 237-A/2006, of 14 December 2006 (Articles 14, 37)

INTERNATIONAL LAW: n.a.

FOREIGN LAW: n.a.

KEYWORDS: Acquisition of Portuguese nationality; civil partnership; principle of equality; growing immigration pressure; foreigner; national citizen; statement attesting the existence of the civil partnership; assimilation of the civil partnership to marriage; Portuguese national; risks of abuse and fraud; foreign citizen; judicial procedure for recognition of the civil partnership; procedure for the acquisition of nationality; community of life with Portuguese national; more uxorium; member of the Portuguese political community; bond of nationality; “nationality litigation”; special “sensitivity” of nationality law; special repercussion of the new constitutional values in nationality law; principle of equality between spouses; inevitable communication between nationality law and constitutional values; “fake marriages”; non-discrimination; foreigners who have ties with the national community; civil court; administrative courts more uxorium; membro da comunidade política portuguesa; vínculo da nacionalidade; ?contencioso da nacionalidade?; especial ?sensibilidade? do Direito da nacionalidade; especial reverberação do Direito da nacionalidade aos novos valores constitucionais; princípio da igualdade entre cônjuges; inevitável comunicação entre Direito da nacionalidade e valores constitucionais; ?falsos casamentos?; não discriminação; estrangeiros que tenham laços vivenciais com a comunidade nacional; tribunal cível; tribunais administrativos

COMMENTS: Coming soon.

REFERENCES IN THE LITERATURE: n.a.  

 

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