Portugal Begins Granting Citizenship to Sephardic JewsPortugal's new nationality law granting Portuguese nationality to descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews, in effect since 27th February, has born its first fruits. The Panamanian citizen Alfonso Paredes was the first to be granted citizenship under this law on 2nd October (the government's last working day before the recent national elections).Read more in:New York Times/AP: Portugal Begins Granting Citizenship to Sephardic Jews http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/10/13/world/europe/ap-eu-portugal-sephardic-jews.html?_r=0Jornal do Notícias/LUSA: Portugal concedeu a primeira nacionalidade a um judeu sefardita http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Nacional/Interior.aspx?content_id=4839273&page=-1 By a historic coincidence, on the same day Spain granted citizenship to the first batch of 4300 applicants under its new nationality law, one day after it came into effect on 1st October (These applications had been made under earlier, less favourable legislation that did not provide for automatic dual nationality).