Between 1952 and 1989 1.2 million immigrants acquired Israeli citizenship by right of return.

To acquire citizenship, the individual must be willing to risk his or her life for the country, via military service.

Prior to the act, such persons could only acquire citizenship if that parent was the father.

At the beginning of the 1970s, he acquired Israeli citizenship.

They never knew that there was any advantage to acquiring citizenship and passing it on to their children.

This is usually done if a person doesn't qualify for acquiring citizenship in any other way.

He acquired Spanish citizenship and lived under an assumed name until the 1970's.

He subsequently had to wait 5 years before acquiring Swiss citizenship.

He acquired Irish citizenship in 1952 and became an art professor.

Few chose to acquire citizenship, and many Europeans left the country.