naturalisation

In this case, the criteria for naturalisation are clearly spelled out in the law. It should not be arbitrary.

You're definitely right that it's a recruiting pressure - that and the free college and the path to naturalisation. But that only holds as long as the casualties are relatively low.

Same for naturalisation applications, which I'm also doing.

Having gone through the naturalisation process myself after the Brexit vote, and without a lawyer, I can confirm that even for EU nationals the rules are as clear as mud. And the fees are clearly designed to prevent a cleaning lady from applying.

Everyone who applies for naturalisation is additionally photographed and fingerprinted. The suspects did all three of these things.

> Lucas made his application for naturalisation on 14 May 2014, a couple of weeks before the expiry of his visa. I'm playing devil's advocate here, but neither indefinite leave to remain OR naturalization would be processed in "a couple of weeks."

The latter potentially opens up the opportunity for naturalisation or a permanent leave to stay. Running a business might work, too but probably is more difficult because you'd have to prove that you're able to provide for yourself, which can be hard when just starting out.

The State Secretariat for Migration will then “green light” an applicant’s request to begin the naturalisation process but that does not mean citizenship is certain. Rather, cantons and municipalities have their own requirements that must be met."

You get a permanent residency after 2 years and can apply for naturalisation after 5. The government is not actively hostile to immigrants, no stste violence, negligible prejudice and a very friendly people.

Yes, but the reason for that is, that Switzerland has a really difficult naturalisation process and is a smaller country. If all humans migrate a similar distance on average, you would expect that a smaller country that is surrounded by other countries to have a higher proportion of immigrants.

I think that it’d make sense to amend the Constitution such that state citizenship is, like federal citizenship, a birthright, and that to change one’s citizenship to a different state one must go through a naturalisation process. Then states could write laws treating state citizens & aliens appropriately, and there’d never be any question of who is a citizen of what state.

My mate was born on holiday in Australia and only lived there for a week, yet had to go through naturalisation over 20 years later to become the same nationality as his parents, as they had forgot to fill out the forms at the time. So presumably Tesla was a Croatian-Serb, or possibly a Serb-Croatian, and whether or not those two groups get along doesn't really affect that definition.