Section III - Naturalization
…3.1. Residents seeking to become Citizens must (as listed alphabetically):
…3.1.1. State within their application their Resident nation, which must be a member of the World Assembly (WA)one of their valid Resident nations and their World Assembly (“WA”) nation, and post said application in the medium designated by the Office,
…3.1.2. Respond in confirmation to a telegram sent to both their nations from a Citizenship Official, and
…3.1.3. Have their application accepted by the Office.
…3.2. All applications must list a valid WA Resident nation and all nations listed in an application must be operated by their respective applicants. Applications not meeting these criteria shall be denied.
…3.3. A Citizenship Official shall notify a Resident, via an in-game telegram, on whether their application for Citizenship was accepted or denied.
…3.4. The Office may deny any Citizenship application for reasons of regional security concerns, incomplete application, provision of falsified information and/or ejection from the WA. Said denial may be appealed to the Conclave within two weeks of denial.
…3.4.1. The Praesidium may vote to overrule the Office’s decision to grant Citizenship for reasons of regional security provided the decision is made within two weeks of the citizenship being granted.
…3.4.2. If a telegram from the Citizenship Office is not replied to within fourteen days, the associated citizenship application shall automatically expire, in which case a new citizenship application must be submitted in order to be accepted.
…3.5. Upon becoming a Citizen, a Resident is required to maintain continuous residency and World Assembly status with the CitizenResident nation they stated their application (“recorded CitizenResident nation”). They shall also, maintain continuous WA membership with the nation they stated as their WA nation in their application (“recorded WA nation”).
…3.6. In the event a Citizen wishes to change what nation the Office has noted as their recorded CitizenResident nation or recorded WA nation, they shall request the Office, within the designated Thread, to change one of their recorded nations to a new nation they own. A telegram from the new nation shall be sent to a Citizenship Official.
…3.6.1. A Citizen does not need to send such a telegram if their new nation is their current recorded Resident nation or recorded WA nation.
…3.6.21. A Citizenship Official shall notify a Citizen, via an in-game telegram, once their request for a change is granted by the Office in the Thread.
…3.7. Continuous World Assembly membership requirements shall not apply to any aActive soldiers of the Eastern Pacific Sovereign Army (“EPSA”) as verified by the Overseeing Officer must return WA status to their citizen nation whenever they are not actively deployed in a foreign region on the orders of the EPSA. The Overseeing Officer shall keep records of all deployments for the Citizenship Office to review for the enforcement of this clause. EPSA soldiers may maintain private WA status nations over an extended period of time provided the Viziers are made aware of the operation and the deployed nation in question. The active EPSA soldier must notify the Citizenship office within one week of joining EPSA.
…3.7.1. If an EPSA soldier ceases active duty, they have one week within which to declare a World Assembly nation they own to the Office in the designated medium to serve as their citizen recorded WA nation following said declaration. Failure to do so in said time-frame shall invalidate their Citizenship.
…3.8. The Overseeing Officer is mandated to upkeep an updated list of EPSA soldiers for the Citizenship Office to review. If the Overseeing Officer does not keep an updated list, they shall be in dereliction of duty.
…3.8. The provisions of this section, except 3.4, shall not apply if an applicant with permanent World Assembly status in a foreign region is approved by a majority vote of the Praesidium. Citizens approved in this way must maintain continuous World Assembly status in the foreign nation they list and continuous residency in a nation of The East Pacific named in their application as well.
…3.8.1. Citizens approved in this way may change their recorded Resident or recorded WA nation through the same process by which WA Citizens may change their Citizen nation under clause 3.6.