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13 Passports You can Get through Citizenship by Marriage

One common misconception is that marrying a foreigner gives you citizenship immediately. This is only true in rare cases and generally only in random countries.

Common Misconceptions

Marrying a Brazilian citizen can qualify you for Brazilian citizenship after only one year of uninterrupted residency.

Brazil

Israel's Law of Return allows Jews and their descendants to obtain permanent residency in Israel rather easily. Foreign spouses of Israeli citizens have to go through a naturalization process to obtain citizenship.

Israel

Marrying a Spanish citizen can qualify you for Spanish citizenship after just one year of tax residence in the country, as opposed to ten years of the naturalization process.

Spain

Marrying a Portuguese citizen or even being in a relationship with one can qualify you for naturalization after three years of marriage or cohabitation.

Portugal

As the spouse of a Mexican citizen, you can qualify for Mexican citizenship through naturalization after just two years of living with your spouse in Mexico.

Mexico

Those married to, or in a registered civil relationship with, an Irish citizen can apply for an Irish passport after one year of "reckonable residence" in Ireland, provided they have been married or in a civil union with their partner for three years.

Ireland

Poland allows those with a Polish spouse to become naturalized citizens after three years of marriage and two years of uninterrupted residence there.

Poland

As the spouse of a Colombian citizen, you can qualify for Colombian citizenship through naturalization after only two years.

Colombia

Switzerland's simplified naturalization process allows spouses of Swiss nationals to apply for citizenship after five years of marriage, so long as they live in the confederation and demonstrate integration into the Swiss way of life.

Switzerland

Being married to a Belize citizen, you can apply for citizenship after just one year of legal residence in Belize.

Belize

To get Serbian citizenship through marriage, you must have been married to a Serbian for three years, maintain permanent residence, sign paperwork claiming that Serbia is "your country," and renounce your current citizenship.

Serbia

Ukraine has a fast-track naturalization process for foreigners married to Ukrainian citizens, reducing the citizenship timeline from five years to only two. Although, you may have to renounce your existing citizenship.

Ukraine

Marrying a Cape Verde citizen will allow you to get Cape Verde citizenship immediately. If you want the fastest second passport by marriage, the African country Cape Verde may be your best option.

Cape Verde

Marrying someone to get a second passport is not really a good strategy, especially since this method is not for everyone. If you don't qualify for citizenship by marriage or want more information on second passports in general, you can contact Nomad Capitalist.

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