27RZ24 - The Deadwood Removal Act

WHEREAS Talossan citizenship is one of the best things one can't buy for money; and

WHEREAS the Minister for Immigration and the members of the Uppermost Cort take valuable hours out of their time to process the applications of prospective citizens; and

WHEREAS prospective citizens who never seem to reach the goal do not make Talossa a better place; and

WHEREAS no mechanism exists to remove incomplete applications from the citizenship process;

THEREFORE the Ziu of Talossa hereby legislates the following:

1. When a prospective sends all or part of a citizenship application to the Immigration Minister (IM), all provided materials shall be placed on the Immigration web site at the IM's earliest convenience.

2. Upon first placement of all provided material, the IM shall send formal notice of this action to the Uppermost Cort, and any others the IM wishes to notify. Material provided by the applicant after the formal notice does not reset the initial date.

3. If, after ninety (90) days from receipt of said notice, the Uppermost Cort has been unable to act on the application due to an incomplete essay or civics test, the Cort is empowered and required to take one of the following actions:

a. Reject the application on the basis of incompletion.
b. Set the application aside for further review.

4. Applications set aside shall be reconsidered by the Cort in thirty (30) days. No citizenship application can be set aside more than three times.

5. Applications rejected by the Cort for incompletion may be resubmitted by the IM, at the Minister's discretion. This will be, for all intents and purposes a new application, with formal notice to be given as above. The IM may not resubmit an application more than two times.

6. Applications rejected by the Cort for incompletion that are not or cannot be resubmitted shall be removed from the Immigration web site at the IM's earliest convenience.

7. The month of a general election, or any other time that the Ziu is not in session, shall not be counted against an applicant's above-stated time limit.

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