Romania Cancels ID Cards in Fictitious Address Scam Tied to Dual Romanian Citizenship
(ROMANIA) — Romania’s fast-expanding crackdown on residence registrations is creating a new fault line for mobile Europeans: your Romanian citizenship can remain intact, while your Romanian ID card (carte de…
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