{"id":38179,"date":"2026-05-22T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-new-law-on-citizenship-comes-into-force\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:30:20","slug":"the-new-law-on-citizenship-comes-into-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-new-law-on-citizenship-comes-into-force\/","title":{"rendered":"The new law on citizenship comes into force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pasaportat-2-780x439-1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>From today, the new law on the citizenship of the Republic of Kosovo came into force.<\/p>\n<p>The acting Minister of the Interior, Xhelal Sve\u00e7la, announced the news through a video published on Facebook, where he addressed his compatriots.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the new law brings simpler and faster procedures for obtaining the citizenship of Kosovo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the main reliefs is the regaining of citizenship for you compatriots, who for objective reasons have been forced to be released from the citizenship of the Republic of Kosovo, of the 9 documents that were previously required, now the request completed by you as well as the proof that you have not been convicted of a criminal offense by a final decision in the country where you live is sufficient&#8221;, expressed Sve\u00e7la.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced that the application for citizenship can now be made online through the e-Kosova platform, while the period for reviewing requests has been reduced from six months to just 30 days.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today, the new law on the citizenship of the Republic of Kosovo came into force. The acting Minister of the Interior, Xhelal Sve\u00e7la, announced the news through a video published on Facebook, where he addressed his compatriots. According to him, the new law brings simpler and faster procedures for obtaining the citizenship of Kosovo. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-38179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-brief"],"views":6,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38181,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38179\/revisions\/38181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}