Andorra la VellaDuring the year 2023, a total of 906 residents applied for Andorran nationality, which represents a variation of -9.1% compared to the year 2022 and -34.3% compared to ten years ago (2013 ).
Of the total number of applications submitted, 473 were granted with full rights (52.2%) and 432 were resolved with the recognition of the right to acquire nationality on a provisional basis (47.7%), pending that the interested person, within the legally established term, prove the loss of the nationality or nationalities of origin.
Of the requests granted with full rights, 294 acquired it by origin and 179 by acquisition. These latter cases had to renounce their previous nationality.
Following European regulations on migration statistics and international protection, the statistics on acquisitions of nationality by residents only consider processes that involve a change of nationality and that refer to resident persons. Thus, during the year 2023, of the 179 acquisitions of nationality, 76.0% are obtained by the residence option, 20.7% by marriage and 3.4% by “Other reasons”.
46.3% of acquisitions by residence correspond to men and the remaining 53.7% to women. Regarding the country of birth, 65.4% correspond to people born in Spain and 8.8% to people born in Portugal. Likewise, 21.3% correspond to people born in other countries (excluding France and Morocco). Regarding the previous nationality, 69.9% are people who have renounced Spanish nationality, 13.2% have renounced Portuguese nationality and 12.5% ​​have renounced other nationalities (excluding French and the Moroccan).
Regarding the acquisition of nationality by marriage, in 2023 more women (51.4%) than men (48.6%) acquired Andorran nationality.
