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Costa Rican nationality law is regulated by the Options and Naturalizations Act (Spanish: Ley de Opciones y Naturalizaciones), which was originally named the Immigration and Naturalization Act and established under the 1949 Constitution. [1] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a citizen of Costa Rica.
There are only three requirements to qualify for the position: [8] Be a citizen; To be Costa Rican by birth, or by naturalization with ten years of residence in the country after having obtained nationality; Be at least twenty one years old.
Visa requirements for Costa Rican citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Costa Rica.. As of 23 July 2024, Costa Rican citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 151 countries and territories, ranking the Costa Rican passport 27th overall and first among Central American countries, in terms of travel freedom according to ...
During the second half of the 20th century and to this date Costa Rica receives numerous waves of Latin American migrants from all the region, but Nicaraguans are by far the higher group among immigrant population encompassing 74.6% of the immigrant population, [5] followed by Colombians and Americans (immigrants in general are 9% of the ...
Costa Rica’s Supreme Court of Justice reported Wednesday that it was no longer obligatory to place the paternal surname before the maternal surname on a person’s identification. The court's ...
The Constitution of Costa Rica is the supreme law of Costa Rica. At the end of the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War, José Figueres Ferrer oversaw the Costa Rican Constitutional Assembly, which drafted the document. It was approved on 1949 November 7.
Human rights in Costa Rica predominantly stem from the UNDHR, the Costa Rican Constitution and the Inter-American Human Rights System. Women's, children's and refugee's rights are all upheld in Costa Rica. [5] [6] [7] LGBT rights have improved substantially over recent years, for instance with the legalization of same-sex-marriage in 2020. [8] [9]
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