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Moroccan women will soon be able to transmit their nationality to their foreign husbands, the Minister of the Family, Bassima Hakkaoui, announced on the margins of the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women of the United Nations in New York.
“Morocco is working to give women new opportunities,” the minister of the conservative justice and development party said.
Under a bill currently before the parliamentary justice committee, foreign husbands can acquire Moroccan citizenship after five years of legal and effective residence in Morocco once they are married. This “social revolution”, as it has been dubbed by local media, cancels article 10 of the old code giving men priority in the transmission of nationality.
The initiative follows the indications of the King of Morocco, who since 2007 has been calling for a new development model for the country in the field of rights. In 2015, the last year in which a census of foreign residents was carried out, over 30,000 children born of a Moroccan mother and foreign father were granted Moroccan citizenship.
