Last year, 7,415 people acquired Luxembourg nationality. This is 37% less than in 2023, when more than 11,000 people acquired Luxembourg nationality.

Portuguese people (19%), French people (15%) and Brazilians (9%) are the most numerous to have acquired Luxembourg nationality in 2024. Next come Americans, Belgians, Germans, Russians, Italians and Syrians.

European nationals alone accounted for almost two-thirds of applications for Luxembourg nationality. But in all, nationals from more than 50 countries obtained citizenship.

Of these 7,415 new citizens:

- 6,108 people obtained Luxembourg nationality by option (this concerns, for example, residents with family ties to Luxembourg, spouses of Luxembourg nationals, or people who attended school in the country)

- 1,113 people have obtained Luxembourg nationality by naturalisation (this concerns foreigners wishing to become Luxembourg nationals after having resided legally in the country for five years)

- 194 people obtained Luxembourg nationality by recovery (this concerns people who had Luxembourg nationality but lost it, often due to marriages or other changes of nationality in the past).

Compared to 2023, it is mainly applications by recovery that have decreased (there were 4,932 in 2023 compared to 194 in 2024), which is consequently reflected in the total number of new Luxembourg citizens. This decrease is explained by the cessation, since 31 December 2018, of new applications based on article 89. This article allowed direct descendants of a Luxembourg grandparent in 1900 who had lost their nationality to regain it. The justice ministry specifies that the last current cases will be closed by the end of December 2025.

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