The Ministry of Immigration and Integration took away a 49-year-old woman’s birthright citizenship in 2018, brushing aside several vital considerations.

Professor: Supreme Court sends a very clear message to the ministry

The Ministry of Immigration and Integration overlooked several key factors when, in 2018, it stripped a now 56-year-old woman of the citizenship she’d held since birth. Her lawyer now says the case should be reopened. Foto: Jens Dresling
The Ministry of Immigration and Integration overlooked several key factors when, in 2018, it stripped a now 56-year-old woman of the citizenship she’d held since birth. Her lawyer now says the case should be reopened. Foto: Jens Dresling
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For the second time in a month, the Supreme Court has issued a striking ruling criticizing the Ministry of Immigration and Integration and overturning cases where the ministry revoked citizens’ Danish citizenship, which they had held for decades.

The first instance occurred on September 3, when the Supreme Court, in detailed reasoning, rejected the interpretation of the nationality law that the ministry had been using for years. And in a new ruling issued this past Friday, the Supreme Court criticized the ministry’s decision in a case where a woman in 2018, at the age of 49, had her citizenship revoked, which she had held since birth.

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