The 2020 Amendments to the Portuguese Nationality Act: a big step further towards pure ius soli… and some more inclusive measures Posted on January 12, 2021 Ana Rita Gil (University of Lisbon) Gil, Ana Rita Portugal After the last amendment, that took place in 2018, the Portuguese Nationality Act was revised once again on the 10th November 2020. The revision resulted from the initiatives of different political parties: the left wing parties were concerned, as traditionally is their case, to give voice to the migrants’ associations and movements, and also to anti-discrimination movements (namely from persons with African descent origins). Right wing parties, on their side, continued to be interested in reinforcing ties with the Portuguese communities living abroad. Naturalisation of descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews – a particular trait of the Portuguese Nationality Act – was also a sensitive topic that heated the debates. Ana Rita Gil holds a PhD on Human Rights of Migrants awarded by the Faculty of Law of the New University of Lisbon. She is Professor and Legal Researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. She worked as a legal advisor to the Judge Chambers of the Portuguese Constitutional Court, to the Portuguese Ombudsman and also to the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture. Her research interests are in migration, citizenship and fundamental and human rights.