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The Uruguayan passport of legal citizens now indicates, in the field for nationality, that a legal citizen automatically has the nationality of the country in which he or she was born, regardless of whether this nationality assigned by Uruguay is juridically accurate.
Visa requirements for holders of normal passports traveling for tourist purposes: Uruguay is a full member of Mercosur.As such, its citizens enjoy unlimited access to any of the other full members (Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay) and associated members (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) with the right to residence and work, with no requirement other than nationality.
The irregularities around Uruguayan passports issued to legal citizen are causing a limitation to the human rights of identity and mobility which reached the attention of the Interamerican Commission for Human Rights. The Uruguayan Ministry of the Interior has issued the biometric passport to Uruguayan citizens since 16 October 2015.
Uruguayans (Spanish: uruguayos) are people identified with the country of Uruguay, through citizenship or descent.Uruguay is home to people of different ethnic origins. As a result, many Uruguayans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and their allegiance to Uruguay.
The civic credential is obtained after the mandatory registration that every Uruguayan citizen over 18 must complete before the Electoral Court, the body which oversees the electioneering process. [3] Once the document is issued, the citizen is registered in the "National Civic Registry", an electoral registry of citizens with the right to vote ...
Old Cédula de Identidad in 1999. Before 2015, it was known as the "Cédula de identidad" It was a laminated card measuring approximately 9 cm in width by 5 cm in height, predominantly in light green color, displaying in its center the flag of the Thirty-Three Orientals with the inscription "Libertad o muerte" On the reverse side, it featured the owner's photo, the number assigned by the D.N.I ...
Minor immigrant groups that, although are small in number, still play an important role in Uruguayan society, include: French: Making up 10% of Uruguay's population (c. 300,000), Frenchmen began immigrating to South America during the 1800s. French Uruguayans are the third largest ancestry group in Uruguay, behind Spaniards and Italians.
There are as well a number of Spanish-born people of Uruguayan descent. As of 2011, there were over 40,000 Uruguayans living in Spain. [4] Current data put the figure of Uruguayans in Spain at 80,000. [5] Expatriate Uruguayans have their own associations in Spain, notably the Uruguayan Center of Madrid [6] and several Consultative Councils. [7]