ABSTRACT
There are countries outside Europe in process of reviewing the conditions for acquiring their nationality by naturalisation. Several countries have recently introduced citizenship tests. In those countries where integration is a requirement for naturalisation an important issue is how to assess whether an applicant for naturalisation is 'integrated'. This chapter presents the integration tests in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. The test comprises three parts: in terms of content, the first part deals with 'basic knowledge about the democratic order of the Austrian Republic'. The second part deals with basic knowledge in Austria's history. The third part of the test varies in that it concerns basic knowledge about the region in which the applicants lives. Naturalisation in Germany is subject to certain conditions that are laid down in the German Nationality Act. The questions that used to compose the test for knowledge of society and the constitutional order of the Netherlands focused intensively on national issues.
