Becoming a Nicaraguan Citizen
This replaces the general rule for you
Naturalisation for Spaniards
A native of Spain gets the same two-year period and the same exemption from renouncing as a Central American of origin, under the migration law and its regulation. The Constitution does not mention Spain: its article 23 writes the exemption for Central Americans of origin alone, so the Spanish concession rests on statute and regulation rather than on constitutional right.
Four years as a permanent resident is the ordinary wait, and the price is your own nationality: the law requires renunciation before the grant, and the Constitution says the same. Four groups halve the wait to two years - Spaniards, Central Americans of origin, the spouse of a Nicaraguan, and foreigners who have established an industry or who have Nicaraguan children - and two of those four are also excused the renunciation. The grant is discretionary in terms, described in the regulation as a sovereign act, and takes legal effect only when published in La Gaceta. The constitutional ground shifted under this in February 2025: the new text dropped the enumeration of who is a national by birth and the guarantee that no national may be deprived of nationality, keeping only the clauses on naturalisation, on traitors to the homeland, and on not losing nationality by acquiring another.
At a glance
- Ordinary residence requirement
- 4 years as a permanent resident
- Renunciation of the previous nationality
- Required, except for Central Americans of origin and natives of Spain
- Spouse of a Nicaraguan
- 2 years of continuous residence
- Foreigner with Nicaraguan children
- 2 years of permanent residence
- Foreigner who has established an industry or contributes to development
- 2 years of permanent residence
- Decision time
- 30 days
- When it takes effect
- On publication in La Gaceta
- Nature of the decision
- A sovereign act, grantable or refusable
- Extension to children
- Automatic for minor children under parental authority, who must confirm at majority
- Loss
- Six grounds, including acquiring another nationality and using the two passports interchangeably
- Recovery after loss
- Possible for three of the six grounds
Requirements
- Four years as a permanent resident, counted from the date of the permanent residence card
- A notarised public deed applying for the nationality and renouncing the nationality of origin and any acquired one, except for Central Americans of origin and natives of Spain
- The original birth certificate, the current permanent residence card, four passport photographs and an academic qualification
- A conduct certificate from the police district of the applicant's home
- A certificate of migration movements
- Where married to a Nicaraguan, the marriage certificate registered in Nicaragua and the spouse's identity card
- Publication of the resolution in La Gaceta before it has legal effect
In detail
Four years, or two for four groups
The ordinary route is four years as a permanent resident, counted from the date of the card rather than from arrival, so time spent as a temporary resident does not count. Four categories halve it. Natives of Spain and Central Americans of origin qualify after two years and need not give up their own nationality. The spouse of a Nicaraguan qualifies after two years of continuous residence. So does a foreigner who has established an industry or carries on an activity contributing to the country's development, and so does one with Nicaraguan children. The two-year clock in all of these runs on permanent residence, which itself follows three years of temporary residence unless the applicant came in by a route that goes straight to it.
The renunciation rule is narrower than it looks
Article 53 and article 23 of the Constitution both require a foreigner to renounce their nationality before being naturalised. The exemption is written for Central Americans of origin in the Constitution, and for Central Americans of origin and natives of Spain in the migration law and in article 112 of the regulation, which is the list the directorate works from. The spouse of a Nicaraguan is not on it. Article 54 gives the spouse the two-year period in a sentence that begins de igual manera, likewise, and says nothing about renunciation - so whether the likewise carries the exemption or only the period is a question the text leaves open, and we have found nothing settling it.
What the 2025 Constitution took out
The constitutional text published in La Gaceta on 18 February 2025 is shorter on nationality than the consolidated text of March 2024, and the cuts matter. The 2024 text listed in its article 16 who is a national by birth, in five numerals; the 2025 text says only that Nicaraguans are nationals or naturalised and that the conditions are set by ordinary law. The enumeration has not vanished - it is reproduced word for word in article 45 of the migration law - but it has moved from a text that needs a special majority to one that does not. The 2024 text also opened its article 20 with no national may be deprived of their nationality. The 2025 text keeps the second sentence of that article and drops the first, while keeping the clause on traitors to the homeland and promoting it to an article of its own.
Two passports used one way out and the other way in
Article 64 lists six grounds on which a naturalised Nicaraguan loses the nationality, and the third is the practical one: using the nationality of origin and the acquired one interchangeably to leave and enter the country. Article 62 says the same thing positively - a Nicaraguan with two nationalities must enter and leave as a Nicaraguan. It is an easy rule to break without noticing, especially for someone whose other passport gives easier entry elsewhere, and the penalty is the nationality itself. Recovery is possible, but only for three of the six grounds, and the regulation requires ten years to pass first.
Country-level policy
Since the Digesto Jurídico laws of 2017 onwards, Nicaragua republishes its statutes as consolidated texts, subject by subject, each approved on a date and published in La Gaceta later. The consolidation date is a hard edge: everything enacted after it is simply not in the text, and the page gives no sign of what has happened since. The migration law's consolidated text was closed on 28 February 2023 and published on 18 January 2024, which is why it still defines the pensioner category by reference to a law repealed in August 2024. The same service carries superseded consolidations alongside current ones - the Constitution has a March 2024 consolidation and a February 2025 integral text at different addresses, with different article numbers for nationality.
What applies to you
Naturalisation for Spaniards
A native of Spain gets the same two-year period and the same exemption from renouncing as a Central American of origin, under the migration law and its regulation. The Constitution does not mention Spain: its article 23 writes the exemption for Central Americans of origin alone, so the Spanish concession rests on statute and regulation rather than on constitutional right.
- Two years as a permanent resident, continuous, counted from the residence card
- A notarised public deed applying for the nationality - without the renunciation the ordinary route requires
- The remaining general requirements: birth certificate, residence card, photographs, academic qualification, police conduct certificate and a certificate of migration movements
- Publication of the resolution in La Gaceta before it has legal effect
What the law says
«La nacionalidad nicaragüense, podrán adquirirla los extranjeros que acrediten ser residentes por cuatro años, a partir de la fecha de obtención de la cédula de residente permanente, previa renuncia de la nacionalidad de origen o adquirida»Our translation - not official
Nicaraguan nationality may be acquired by foreigners who show four years of residence, counted from the date of obtaining the permanent residence card, after renouncing the nationality of origin or any acquired one
The clock runs from the permanent residence card, not from first arrival, so years spent as a temporary resident do not count towards it.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«Los extranjeros naturales de España y los de origen centroamericano, podrán adquirir la nacionalidad nicaragüense cuando sean residentes permanentes en Nicaragua por un periodo continuo de dos años sin necesidad de renunciar a la de su país de origen. De igual manera el cónyuge por razón de matrimonio con nicaragüense podrá adquirir la nacionalidad nicaragüense con una residencia continua de dos años.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners who are natives of Spain and those of Central American origin may acquire Nicaraguan nationality when they have been permanent residents in Nicaragua for a continuous period of two years, without needing to renounce that of their country of origin. Likewise the spouse by reason of marriage to a Nicaraguan may acquire Nicaraguan nationality with two years' continuous residence.
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The legislature's legal-information service. Under the Digesto Jurídico laws it publishes a consolidated text subject by subject, each approved on a date and gazetted afterwards, together with the integral texts of the Constitution and of the regional customs instruments as Nicaragua gazetted them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«podrán adquirir la nacionalidad nicaragüense, cuando acrediten dos años de residencia permanente, a partir de la obtención de la cédula, y cumplir con los demás requisitos de ley.»Our translation - not official
may acquire Nicaraguan nationality on showing two years of permanent residence, counted from obtaining the card, and meeting the other requirements of law.
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The legislature's legal-information service. Under the Digesto Jurídico laws it publishes a consolidated text subject by subject, each approved on a date and gazetted afterwards, together with the integral texts of the Constitution and of the regional customs instruments as Nicaragua gazetted them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«Podrán adquirir la nacionalidad nicaragüense las personas extranjeras con dos años de residencia permanente, que tengan hijos o hijas nicaragüenses.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners with two years of permanent residence who have Nicaraguan sons or daughters may acquire Nicaraguan nationality.
About this source
The legislature's legal-information service. Under the Digesto Jurídico laws it publishes a consolidated text subject by subject, each approved on a date and gazetted afterwards, together with the integral texts of the Constitution and of the regional customs instruments as Nicaragua gazetted them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«Escritura Pública Notariada de solicitud de la Nacionalidad Nicaragüense y Renuncia a la de Origen y a la adquirida por naturalización, se exceptúa del requisito de renuncia a los centroamericanos de origen y los naturales de España;»Our translation - not official
A notarised public deed applying for Nicaraguan nationality and renouncing that of origin and any acquired by naturalisation; Central Americans of origin and natives of Spain are excepted from the renunciation requirement;
The exemption from renouncing is written for two groups only. The spouse of a Nicaraguan, who shares the two-year period, is not among them.
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The legislature's legal-information service. Under the Digesto Jurídico laws it publishes a consolidated text subject by subject, each approved on a date and gazetted afterwards, together with the integral texts of the Constitution and of the regional customs instruments as Nicaragua gazetted them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«El otorgar la nacionalidad nicaragüense es un acto soberano del Estado de Nicaragua, por tal razón la solicitud de la nacionalidad podrá ser aprobada o denegada en este sentido; debiendo la Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería notificar de tal resolución al solicitante dentro del término máximo de treinta días después de interpuesta la solicitud de nacionalidad.»Our translation - not official
Granting Nicaraguan nationality is a sovereign act of the State of Nicaragua, and for that reason the application may be approved or refused on that basis; the Directorate General of Migration and Alien Affairs must notify the applicant of the resolution within a maximum of thirty days of the application being made.
A thirty-day decision and an express statement that meeting the conditions does not entitle anyone to the grant.
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The legislature's legal-information service. Under the Digesto Jurídico laws it publishes a consolidated text subject by subject, each approved on a date and gazetted afterwards, together with the integral texts of the Constitution and of the regional customs instruments as Nicaragua gazetted them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«Debe ser publicada en La Gaceta, Diario Oficial, para que la resolución tenga efectos legales.»Our translation - not official
It must be published in La Gaceta, Diario Oficial, for the resolution to have legal effect.
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The legislature's legal-information service. Under the Digesto Jurídico laws it publishes a consolidated text subject by subject, each approved on a date and gazetted afterwards, together with the integral texts of the Constitution and of the regional customs instruments as Nicaragua gazetted them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«La nacionalidad nicaragüense adquirida por nacionalización se perderá en los siguientes casos:»Our translation - not official
Nicaraguan nationality acquired by naturalisation shall be lost in the following cases:
Six grounds follow: acquiring another nationality; express renunciation; using the nationality of origin and the acquired one interchangeably to leave and enter the country; applying with fraudulent documents; refusing to help defend the country against foreign aggression; and conviction for acts of treason. The third is the one that catches people: travelling out on one passport and in on the other.
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The legislature's legal-information service. Under the Digesto Jurídico laws it publishes a consolidated text subject by subject, each approved on a date and gazetted afterwards, together with the integral texts of the Constitution and of the regional customs instruments as Nicaragua gazetted them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«Las y los extranjeros pueden ser nacionalizados, previa renuncia a su nacionalidad.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners may be naturalised, after renouncing their nationality.
The Constitution published in La Gaceta No. 32 of 18 February 2025. The same article's second paragraph excepts Central Americans of origin resident in Nicaragua.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«Las y los centroamericanos de origen, residentes en Nicaragua, tienen derecho de optar a la nacionalidad nicaragüense sin renunciar a su nacionalidad.»Our translation - not official
Central Americans of origin, resident in Nicaragua, have the right to opt for Nicaraguan nationality without renouncing their own.
Constitutional, not statutory. It does not mention Spain; the exemption for natives of Spain lives in the migration law and its regulation only.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«Las y los traidores a la Patria pierden la nacionalidad nicaragüense.»Our translation - not official
Traitors to the Homeland lose Nicaraguan nationality.
In the 2024 consolidated text this sentence sat at the end of article 21, after a clause saying that acquisition, loss and recovery are regulated by ordinary law. In the 2025 text it stands alone as a whole article, and the preceding article 20 - no national may be deprived of their nationality - is gone.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«La calidad de nacional no se pierde por el hecho de adquirir otra nacionalidad.»Our translation - not official
The status of national is not lost by the fact of acquiring another nationality.
Still in the 2025 text, and it is the half of the old article 20 that survived. It governs nationals; article 64 of the migration law takes a naturalised Nicaraguan's nationality away for exactly that, which is a tension between the two texts that nothing we read resolves.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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«Ningún nacional puede ser privado de su nacionalidad. La calidad de nacional nicaragüense no se pierde por el hecho de adquirir otra nacionalidad.»Our translation - not official
No national may be deprived of their nationality. The status of Nicaraguan national is not lost by the fact of acquiring another nationality.
Quoted for what the 2025 text dropped. The consolidated text of 13 March 2024 carried both sentences; the text published on 18 February 2025 keeps the second and not the first.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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Practical notes
Whether the spouse of a Nicaraguan must renounce their nationality is not settled by the text. The exemption is written for Central Americans of origin and natives of Spain; the spouse shares only the two-year period. A reader in that position should get the point confirmed before renouncing anything.
The 2025 constitutional text no longer enumerates who is a national by birth. The list survives in article 45 of the migration law, consolidated to February 2023, and the two are word for word the same, but the authority has moved from the Constitution to ordinary legislation.
Article 25 of the 2025 Constitution says the status of national is not lost by acquiring another nationality, while article 64 of the migration law makes acquiring another nationality the first ground on which a naturalised Nicaraguan loses theirs. We have found nothing reconciling the two. The constitutional article speaks of nacionales, which may be intended to mean nationals by birth only.
The ten-year wait before nationality can be recovered is in article 120 of the regulation, which we read; it applies to the three grounds article 65 of the law allows recovery for.
- consolidatesTexto Consolidado, Ley N°. 761, Ley General de Migración y Extranjería
Asamblea Nacional de la República de Nicaragua - Normas Jurídicas de Nicaragua · consolidated to 2023-02-28
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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- consolidatesReglamento a la Ley N°. 761, Ley General de Migración y Extranjería, Decreto Ejecutivo N°. 31-2012
Asamblea Nacional de la República de Nicaragua - Normas Jurídicas de Nicaragua
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The legislature's legal-information service. Under the Digesto Jurídico laws it publishes a consolidated text subject by subject, each approved on a date and gazetted afterwards, together with the integral texts of the Constitution and of the regional customs instruments as Nicaragua gazetted them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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- consolidatesTexto Íntegro de la Constitución Política de la República de Nicaragua
Asamblea Nacional de la República de Nicaragua - Normas Jurídicas de Nicaragua
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The legislature's legal-information service. Under the Digesto Jurídico laws it publishes a consolidated text subject by subject, each approved on a date and gazetted afterwards, together with the integral texts of the Constitution and of the regional customs instruments as Nicaragua gazetted them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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- consolidatesTexto Consolidado, Constitución Política de la República de Nicaragua (consolidada al 13 de marzo de 2024)
Asamblea Nacional de la República de Nicaragua - Normas Jurídicas de Nicaragua · consolidated to 2024-03-13
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text's cut-off date is a hard edge and the page carries no warning that anything has happened since: the migration law's text was closed on 28 February 2023 and still defines a residence category by reference to a statute repealed in August 2024. It must never be cited as evidence that a statute is in force - it serves a repealed law in full with the repeal as a single line at the foot, which is why that route is still sold everywhere. It must not be cited for any amount set in a table, because those are published as images. And where one instrument has two addresses, as the Constitution does, the superseded consolidation stays live with different article numbers.
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