Most migrants must be long-term residents for five years to be eligible for Slovak citizenship, which means waiting for at least 10 years. The lack of a regulation on periods of absence means that migrants do not know how long they can spend outside Slovakia before disqualification. Applicants must meet conditions such as a high criminal records check and a simple language interview. Naturalising migrants are the second most insecure under the law in Slovakia, above GR and LV and tied with LT. Their citizenship can be withdrawn without any time limits. The state does not consider the migrant's personal life, but rather the ‘public interest' and ‘opinion of public bodies concerned' such as the police. Dual nationality policies, the most favourable dual nationality policies of the EU-10, would attain best practice if the Slovak-born children of migrants were automatically dual nationals.
