| Persons and Family Code: Nationality Code | |
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| Parliament of Burkina Faso | |
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| Enacted by | Government of Burkina Faso |
| Status: Current legislation | |
Burkinabe nationality law is regulated by the Constitution of Burkina Faso, as amended;[Notes 2] the Persons and Family Code (French: Code des personnes et de la famille), and its revisions; and various international agreements to which the country is a signatory.[3] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a national of Burkina Faso.[4] The legal means to acquire nationality, formal legal membership in a nation, differ from the domestic relationship of rights and obligations between a national and the nation, known as citizenship.[5][6] Burkinabe nationality is typically obtained under the principle of jus sanguinis, i.e. by birth in Burkina Faso or abroad to parents with Burkinabe nationality.[7] It can be granted to persons with an affiliation to the country, or to a permanent resident who has lived in the country for a given period of time through naturalization.[8]
- ^ Persons and Family Code 1989, pp. 15–23.
- ^ Ruchti 2015, p. 21.
- ^ Manby 2015, pp. 13–14.
- ^ Manby 2015, p. 110.
- ^ Fransman 2011, p. 4.
- ^ Rosas 1994, p. 34.
- ^ Manby 2015, p. 15.
- ^ Manby 2015, pp. 5, 24.
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