750,000 Apply For Hungary Citizenship
- 16 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
So far 750,000 ethnic Hungarians have applied for Hungarian citizenship and 700,000 people have been granted the status, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén said, adding that the fast-tracked process meant that one million new Hungarian citizens by the end of the current government term was a realistic goal.
The Christian Democrat leader said almost 100,000 people would be simply declared Hungarian citizens by the end of the term rather than going through the naturalisation process.
This will apply to people whose parents or grandparents emigrated from Hungary and are Hungarians by birth but have never been declared Hungarian citizens.
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