Naturalisation Is an Act of Parliament, Taken Fifty Applicants at a Time
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Belize on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
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Suriname does not naturalise by decision. Article 8(1) of the nationality law provides that Surinamese nationality by naturalisation is acquired by the entry into force of an Act granting it, and the aliens department describes how that is done in practice: applications are compiled into a collective schedule of fifty persons, laid before the National Assembly, debated in public session, confirmed by the President and published. The qualifying condition is five years of domicile or main residence, or loss of Surinamese nationality, or birth in Suriname to parents of no or unknown nationality. Two routes avoid Parliament. A person born in Suriname, a former Surinamese national, or a person born abroad to a parent born in Suriname may be granted nationality by the President under article 16a, provided they have domicile or main residence in Suriname on the day of the request; the aliens department calls this naturalisation by resolution. And a child born in Suriname to a parent living there becomes Surinamese automatically at eighteen after three years of residence, unless the child opts out in the preceding year.
At a glance
- Residence for naturalisation
- Five years of domicile or main residence
- How naturalisation is granted
- By an Act of the National Assembly
- Applicants per Act
- Fifty, on a collective schedule
The aliens department's description of how it compiles files for Parliament, not a figure in the statute.
- Charge
- At least Sf. 200,000 as the Act prints it
A guilder figure. The 2004 redenomination divided guilder amounts by a thousand, which the explanatory memorandum to S.B. 2022 no. 144 states for the work permit charge; we have not read an instrument restating this one, so no Surinamese-dollar figure is published here.
- Refund on refusal
- Half the sum paid
- Presidential route
- Birth in Suriname, former Surinamese nationality, or a parent born in Suriname, plus residence in Suriname at the date of the request
- Decision time on the Presidential route
- One year
- Option at eighteen
- For a child born in Suriname to a parent living there, after three years of residence immediately before
- Dual nationality
- Lost by voluntary acquisition of another nationality
Article 11(2) and (4). The Presidential route may also be revoked where the person failed to do everything possible to lose the original nationality after naturalising.
Requirements
- Full age, and five years of domicile or main residence in Suriname - or loss of Surinamese nationality, or birth in Suriname to parents of no or unknown nationality
- Payment of the naturalisation charge to a Receiver of Direct Taxes before the request is lodged
- Where the applicant belongs to another country, production on demand of evidence that its law is no obstacle to naturalisation in Suriname
- For the Presidential route: a qualifying link by birth or former nationality, and domicile or main residence in Suriname on the day of the request
In detail
Parliament as the naturalisation authority
The consequence of article 8(1) is visible in the National Assembly's own publication: its collection of legislation carries a category called Naturalisatie wetten alongside Acts, amendments, treaties and budgets. Naturalisation is legislation in Suriname, in the same sense that a budget is. The practical consequences follow from that and not from any immigration policy: a file waits for a batch to fill, the batch waits for a sitting, and the grant takes effect when the Act enters into force rather than on a decision date. The aliens department's figure of fifty applicants per schedule is the only published indication of the batch size, and it comes from the department rather than from any instrument.
Where the money figures stand
The charge in article 8 is printed in Surinamese guilders, a currency replaced in 2004. The explanatory memorandum to the 2022 work-permit Act states what the redenomination did to a comparable figure - the work permit charge of Sf. 75,000 became SRD 75 - but no instrument we read restates the naturalisation charge, and the aliens department's pages do not give it either. We print what the Act prints and no conversion of our own.
Country-level policy
Suriname's laws are published by the National Assembly in four collections, and the boundary between them is a date. The first is Geldende teksten tot en met 2005, texts in force to 2005: the amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005 to produce consolidated texts. The second and third are the Acts passed after 2005 and the amendments made after 2005, published as facsimiles of the Staatsblad, one instrument at a time. The index page states in terms that the new Acts and amendments have not since been incorporated into the consolidated text. That is a cut-off stated by the publisher rather than inferred from an edition's name, and it is unusually honest: most revised editions in this comparison say nothing about their own staleness. The practical consequence is that reading a consolidated Surinamese Act is only half the work. The other half is the list of post-2005 amendments, where the Income Tax Act alone has ten entries.
Suriname replaced the Surinamese guilder with the Surinamese dollar in 2004, and the consolidation of its statute book was done in 2005 without restating the amounts. Every money figure in a text from that collection is therefore printed in a currency that no longer exists: the naturalisation charge of Sf. 200,000, the work permit fee of Sf. 75,000, the income tax bands in millions of guilders, the fine of five hundred thousand guilders in the work permit Act. What the conversion did is stated in one place in the statute book, the explanatory memorandum to the Act of 1 December 2022 that replaced the work permit fee: the general rate was converted from Sf. 75,000 to SRD 75, a division by a thousand, and had since been thoroughly overtaken. Acts passed after 2005 are in Surinamese dollars from the start, which is why the skilled citizens Act of 2006 charges SRD 75 and the health insurance Act of 2014 prices cover in SRD. Nothing here converts a guilder figure on its own authority.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Belize
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«1. De Surinaamse nationaliteit door naturalisatie wordt verkregen door het in werking
treden van een wet waarbij zij verleend wordt.»Our translation - not official
Surinamese nationality by naturalisation is acquired by the entry into force of an Act by which it is granted.
About this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«4. Om een verzoek voor naturalisatie te kunnen indienen moet de verzoeker:
a. meerderjarig zijn in de zin van deze wet;
b. zijn Surinaamse nationaliteit hebben verloren of gedurende de laatste vijf jaren zijn
woonplaats dan wel zijn hoofdverblijf in Suriname hebben gehad of in Suriname zijn
geboren uit ouders zonder dan wel van onbekende nationaliteit;»Our translation - not official
To be able to lodge a request for naturalisation the applicant must: (a) be of full age within the meaning of this Act; (b) have lost his Surinamese nationality, or have had his domicile or his main residence in Suriname during the last five years, or have been born in Suriname of parents without nationality or of unknown nationality;
About this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«2. Voor elke naturalisatie is aan de Staatskas verschuldigd een bedrag van ten minste
Sf. 200.000,- (TWEEHONDERDDUIZEND GULDEN)»Our translation - not official
For every naturalisation an amount of at least Sf. 200,000 (TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND GUILDERS) is due to the Treasury
The sentence continues with an exemption for minor children who have come of age during the naturalisation process and must lodge their own request. Sub-section (6) sets a fixed Sf. 80,000 for former Surinamese nationals and for a married woman not naturalised together with her husband, and sub-section (7) returns half the sum where naturalisation is refused.
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The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«1. De President kan op verzoek de Surinaamse nationaliteit verlenen aan een persoon,
die:
a. een vreemde nationaliteit bezit of staatloos is, doch die in Suriname is geboren;
b. te eniger tijd de Surinaamse nationaliteit heeft bezeten en die thans een vreemde
nationaliteit bezit of staatloos is;
c. buiten Suriname is geboren uit ouders van wie één of beide in Suriname is (zijn)
geboren en met welke ouder(s) die persoon in familierechtelijke betrekking staat of
heeft gestaan, en die thans een vreemde nationaliteit bezit of staatloos is.»Our translation - not official
The President may on request grant Surinamese nationality to a person who: (a) holds a foreign nationality or is stateless, but was born in Suriname; (b) at some time held Surinamese nationality and now holds a foreign nationality or is stateless; (c) was born outside Suriname of parents of whom one or both was born in Suriname and with which parent or parents that person stands or has stood in a family-law relationship, and who now holds a foreign nationality or is stateless.
About this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«1. Surinamer wordt het in Suriname geboren kind van een tijdens de geboorte aldaar
wonende vader of moeder bij het bereiken van de leeftijd van 18 jaar, indien het kind
gedurende het onmiddellijk daaraan voorafgegane tijdvak van drie jaren in Suriname
woonplaats of hoofdverblijf heeft gehad.»Our translation - not official
A child born in Suriname of a father or mother living there at the time of the birth becomes Surinamese on reaching the age of 18, if the child has had its domicile or main residence in Suriname during the period of three years immediately preceding.
Sub-section (2) gives the child, in the year before turning eighteen and provided it then holds another nationality, the right to declare independently that it does not wish to acquire Surinamese nationality.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«Surinamer door geboorte is:
a. het wettig, gewettigd of door de vader erkend natuurlijk kind, waarvan tijdens de geboorte de
vader de Surinaamse nationaliteit bezit;
b. het wettig kind van een Surinamer die vóór de geboorte van het kind is overleden;
c. het natuurlijk niet erkend kind, waarvan tijdens de geboorte de moeder de Surinaamse
nationaliteit bezit;
d. het in Suriname geboren natuurlijk niet erkend kind, tenzij blijkt, dat het de nationaliteit van
een andere Staat bezit.»Our translation - not official
Surinamese by birth is: (a) the legitimate, legitimated or paternally acknowledged natural child whose father holds Surinamese nationality at the time of the birth; (b) the legitimate child of a Surinamese national who died before the birth of the child; (c) the natural unacknowledged child whose mother holds Surinamese nationality at the time of the birth; (d) the natural unacknowledged child born in Suriname, unless it appears that it holds the nationality of another State.
Article 4(b) adds the child born in Suriname whose mother holds Surinamese nationality at the time of birth, unless it derives another nationality from its non-Surinamese father, in which case it is deemed never to have held Surinamese nationality.
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The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«- Voor deze categorie wordt een verzamelstaat van 50 personen opgemaakt en ter behandeling aangeboden aan de Nationale Assemblee (DNA).
- De behandeling vindt in een openbare vergadering van DNA plaats
- waarna deze wordt bekrachtigd door de President van de Republiek Suriname
- en vervolgens wordt gepubliceerd in het Advertentie van de Republiek Suriname.»Our translation - not official
For this category a collective schedule of 50 persons is drawn up and submitted for handling to the National Assembly (DNA). The handling takes place in a public session of the DNA, after which it is confirmed by the President of the Republic of Suriname and then published in the Advertentieblad of the Republic of Suriname.
About this source
The sub-directorate that decides residence, extension, settlement and naturalisation applications under the Vreemdelingenwet 1991, the Vreemdelingenbesluit 1995 and the Wet op de Nationaliteit en het Ingezetenschap. Its site publishes the categorisation of aliens it works to (Surinaamse origine, CARICOM staatsburgers, overige vreemdelingen), the application types it accepts, the authorisation-for-short-stay procedure, document lists, announcements and a register of granted residence permits.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It states practice, not law, and the two diverge in both directions. It gives CARICOM nationals a six-month short stay where the Vreemdelingenwet gives a visa-free visitor three months, and it gives a recognised skilled citizen an indefinite stay the Wet Bekwame Burgers does not confer at all. It describes the marriage option right as open to any alien married to a Surinamese national for two years, where article 12 of the nationality law covers only a wife and states no duration. It attributes the Presidential naturalisation power to article 16 of that law when the power is in article 16a. Its page on categories of aliens announces that the Caribbean Community has fifteen member countries and then lists fourteen, omitting Haiti. It cites instruments it does not publish - the beschikking S.B. 2016 no. 17 on aliens of Surinamese origin and the resolution S.B. 2004 no. 120 on charges - so a figure or a condition found only here has no readable source behind it. Its own announcements page is stale: the latest dated notice is 15 November 2021. It serves a self-signed certificate on https, so a plain client rejects it; it reads over http and through the extraction service.
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Practical notes
The aliens department describes the Presidential route as naturalisation by resolution and attributes it to article 16 of the nationality law. The provision that gives the President this power is article 16a, inserted in 1983; article 16 is a different provision about a minor child of a Surinamese mother whose father is dead or legally unknown. We cite the article the power is in.
Loss of nationality is in article 11 and is broad: naturalisation in another country, forfeiture declared by the President at the request of a dual national living abroad, voluntary acquisition of another nationality, and entering foreign military or state service without the President's leave.
This record rests on the whole of the Wet op de Nationaliteit en het Ingezetenschap as consolidated to 2005, and on the aliens department's page on application types.
- consolidatesWet op de Nationaliteit en het Ingezetenschap (S.B. 1975 no. 4)
De Nationale Assemblee van de Republiek Suriname · consolidated to 2005
About this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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- administersType aanvragen en hun toelichting
Onderdirectoraat Vreemdelingenzaken, Ministerie van Justitie en Politie (Suriname)
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The sub-directorate that decides residence, extension, settlement and naturalisation applications under the Vreemdelingenwet 1991, the Vreemdelingenbesluit 1995 and the Wet op de Nationaliteit en het Ingezetenschap. Its site publishes the categorisation of aliens it works to (Surinaamse origine, CARICOM staatsburgers, overige vreemdelingen), the application types it accepts, the authorisation-for-short-stay procedure, document lists, announcements and a register of granted residence permits.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It states practice, not law, and the two diverge in both directions. It gives CARICOM nationals a six-month short stay where the Vreemdelingenwet gives a visa-free visitor three months, and it gives a recognised skilled citizen an indefinite stay the Wet Bekwame Burgers does not confer at all. It describes the marriage option right as open to any alien married to a Surinamese national for two years, where article 12 of the nationality law covers only a wife and states no duration. It attributes the Presidential naturalisation power to article 16 of that law when the power is in article 16a. Its page on categories of aliens announces that the Caribbean Community has fifteen member countries and then lists fourteen, omitting Haiti. It cites instruments it does not publish - the beschikking S.B. 2016 no. 17 on aliens of Surinamese origin and the resolution S.B. 2004 no. 120 on charges - so a figure or a condition found only here has no readable source behind it. Its own announcements page is stale: the latest dated notice is 15 November 2021. It serves a self-signed certificate on https, so a plain client rejects it; it reads over http and through the extraction service.
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- consolidatesSurinaamse Wetten: how the collection is organised
De Nationale Assemblee van de Republiek Suriname
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The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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