Anuscheh Farahat and Kay Hailbronner means a decline of 43 per cent compared to 2005 (217,241 naturalisations).57 In 2010, only 101,570 applicants were naturalised, whereas in 2013 the number of naturalisations increased slightly to 112,353. Since the enactment of the 1999/2000 Nationality Act 1,029,024 persons were naturalised up to 1 Jan 2007. With regard to the naturalisations in 2006, 33,388 applicants came from Turkey (26.8 per cent), 12,601 came from Serbia and Montenegro (10.1 per cent) and 6,907 came from Poland (5.5 per cent). In 2013, 27,970 Turkish nationals were naturalised, 10,872 came from African countries and 26,155 from Asia. Among the latter group, 3,150 persons came from Iraq and 3,054 from Afghanistan. The number of naturalisations of Turkish nationals has fallen remarkably from 44.4 per cent in 2000 to 26.8 per cent in 2006 to 25.8 per cent in 2010 and finally 24.9 per cent in 2013. All in all, the naturalisation quota of Turkish nationals has fallen from 4.9 per cent in 1999 to 1.9 per cent in 2006 (Thränhardt 2008: 12) and 1.8 per cent in 2010. In 2013, the naturalisation quota of Turkish nationals was 2 per cent. Given the general interest of Turkish nationals in Germany in dual nationality and the fact that dual nationality was accepted in only 17.5 per cent of all naturalisations of Turkish nationals in 2013, it is plausible that this number would be significantly higher if dual nationality were generally accepted by German citizenship law. As to the practical effects of the reform legislation on ius soli acquisition of German nationality, the statistics show a somewhat diverse picture. The initial assumption of the number of ius soli acquisitions (about 100,000 per year; 300,000 to 350,000 non-recurring additional naturalisations based on Section 40b of the Nationality Act) was largely wrong. In 2000, 41,257 children acquired ius soli German nationality by birth on German territory.58 This number remained more or less constant in the following years with 36,819 persons in 2003. In addition, in 2001 and 2002 approximately 43,700 children were naturalised according to the special provision of Section 40b of the Nationality Act which, for a limited period, made it possible for children born before the entry into force of the new law to acquire German nationality on the basis of ius soli if they would have fulfilled the requirements of ius soli acquisition had the law been in force at that time. An attempt to prolong this provision beyond 2001 was rejected in the Bundestag. The relatively small number of ius soli acquisitions was sometimes attributed to the requirement that one parent must be in possession of an unlimited residence permit. This requirement was fulfilled by slightly less than half of the foreign population living in Germany on 1 January 2004. According to subsequent reports by the Statistical Office, the number of naturalisations in 2013 increased slightly to 112,353. The naturalisation rate in 2013 was 2.3 per cent compared to only 2.2 in 2010 and 2.28 in 2011. This means that of 45 persons with a foreign passport who had fulfilled the naturalisation requirements only one person has in fact successfully applied for a German passport. The largest group of naturalised persons still comes from Turkey (27,970, which is equal to 24.9 per cent of all naturalisations), followed by naturalisations from persons from the EU Member States (23,635). Naturalisations of citizens from Ukraine still amount to roughly 4,500, while the number of naturalisations from Iraq slightly decreased (3,150 compared to 4,790 in 2011) followed by 3,054 naturalisations of nationals from Afghanistan. While, according to the Statistical Office, naturalisation numbers have gone down between 2013 and 2016, they were almost back to the same level as 2013 by the end of 2017 (112,211 people naturalised) and 2018 (112,340 people naturalised) each. A total of 36,185 57 Migrationsbericht des Bundesamtes (Report on migration by the Federal Office) 2006, December 2007, p. 173. 58 See Bundestagsdrucksache (Official Records of the Bundestag) No. 14/9815, p. 5. RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-CR 2020/5 - © 2020 Author(s) 27