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conflict with Article 15(2) of the UDHR244; it also is justified by Article
8(2)(b) of the 1961 Statelessness Convention.245
Article 8246
1. A Contracting State shall not deprive a person of its nationality if such
deprivation would render him stateless.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article, a person may
be deprived of the nationality of a Contracting State:
(a) in the circumstances in which, under paragraphs 4 and 5 of article 7, it is
permissible that a person should lose his nationality;
(b) where the nationality has been obtained by misrepresentation or fraud.
Article 8(2)(a) recognizes the right of a State to void nationality if a
person resides abroad for at least seven years and fails to maintain nationality
requisites like renewing a passport.247 These procedural demands are not
onerous to comply with. One who omits to fulfil the conditions implies that
he does not intend to keep a nexus with the State.
The ECJ and ECtHR address the above issues in Janko Rottmann v.
Freistaat Bayern248 and Tjebbes & Ors v. Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken.249
In Rottmann and Tjebbes the Applicants held nationality of an EU State.250
They forfeited the nationality inadvertently or deliberately.251 As in Kaur,
they challenged the additional deprivation of EU citizenship. 252
The Rottmann judgment focuses on Article 7 of the European
Convention on Nationality.253
244.
245.
G.A. Res. 217 (III) A, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Dec. 10, 1948)
G.A. Res 896 (IX), Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, at art. 8(2)(b)
(Aug. 30, 1961)
246.
Id.
247.
G.A. Res 896 (IX), supra note 245, at art. 7(4).
248.
Case C-135/08, Janko Rottmann v. Freistaat Bayern, 2010 E.C.R. I-01449, ¶ 16.
249.
Case C-221/17, Tjebbes & Ors v. Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, 2019
EU:C:2019:189, ¶¶ 3-4.
250.
Case C-135/08, Janko Rottmann v. Freistaat Bayern, 2010 E.C.R. I-01449, ¶¶ 25-26;
Case C-221/17, Tjebbes & Ors v. Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, 2019 EU:C:2019:189, ¶
13.
251.
Case C-135/08, Janko Rottmann v. Freistaat Bayern, 2010 E.C.R. I-01449, ¶ 28; Case
C-221/17, Tjebbes & Ors v. Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, 2019 EU:C:2019:189, ¶ 13.
252.
Case C-135/08, Janko Rottmann v. Freistaat Bayern, 2010 E.C.R. I-01449, ¶ 30; Case
C-221/17, Tjebbes & Ors v. Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, 2019 EU:C:2019:189, ¶ 18.
253.
Case C-135/08, Janko Rottmann v. Freistaat Bayern, 2010 E.C.R. I-01449, ¶ 52;
European Convention on Nationality, supra note 166, at art. 7.