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This path to citizenship is in restitution for the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain. The Law establishes the right to Spanish nationality of Sephardi Jews with a connection to Spain. [27] An Instruction of 29 September 2015 removes a provision whereby those acquiring Spanish nationality by law 12/2015 must renounce any other nationality ...
The Spanish law that offered citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expired in 2019, although subsequent extensions were granted by the Spanish government —due to the COVID-19 pandemic— in order to file pending documents and sign delayed declarations before a notary public in Spain. [8]
In 2016, she became the first American Jew to be granted Spanish citizenship under the 2015 Spanish law that created a time window for Sephardic Jews, to reclaim Spanish citizenship. [1] [2] In 2022 Spain granted her the Order of Isabella the Catholic for her work helping other Sephardic Jews through the citizenship restoration process, [1] [2 ...
In 1924, the regime of Miguel Primo de Rivera granted Spanish citizenship to a part of the Sephardic Jewish diaspora. [8] The edict was formally and symbolically revoked on December 16, 1968, [9] following the Second Vatican Council, by the regime of Francisco Franco. This occurred a full century after Jews had openly begun to practice their ...
A Spanish law passed in 2015 allows individuals who can prove descent from the Sephardic Jews who were exiled in 1492 following the Alhambra Decree and who can show a "special link" to Spain to apply for dual citizenship. Spain had previously allowed application for such individuals but had required that they give up their citizenship from ...
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The Portuguese parliament approved changes to the system for granting nationality to descendants of Sephardic Jews on Friday, Jan.5, 2024. ... and around 75,000 were granted citizenship.
Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely descended from Jews who lived as New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula during the few centuries following the forced expulsion of unconverted Jews from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1497.