Journal of college of Law for Legal and Political Sciences

Abstract

Nationality is one of the important and prominent laws as a tool for the distribution of individuals among different countries of the world, and the legal link that links the individual to his country in terms of his subordination and affiliation, determining the social and legal affiliation, determining the status of membership in the state group, enjoying rights and performing public burdens. The reality of life reveals to us that individuals are distributed in multiple blocs and communities and this phenomenon of division and distribution raises a very important issue and research is how to distribute individuals in terms of determining the basic component of each state, the element of the people and the existence of the state depends on the accession of the people under its jurisdiction and affiliation to it under a legal system called citizenship is sponsored by the state project and entails the enjoyment of individuals belonging to the nationality of the state Therefore, we will study the issue of nationality in the Republic of Iraq in 2005 in terms of the definition of nationality and its elements and the general principles of Iraqi nationality under Islamic thought and in the 2005 Constitution and the general provisions of nationality in the Iraqi nationality law in force No. 26 of 2006 through the original nationality and acquired nationality and loss of nationality and its recovery.