and 28. Such a person (resident abroad) must describe the circumstances by which they lost their nationality and their reasons for wanting to recover nationality. The Crown Prosecutor has some latitude to approve or decline such applications (from a person resident abroad) based on the description/reasons provided. A person resident in Belgium does not need to demonstrate that it was impossible for them to make the declaration of conservation. Nationality declarations A person seeking to make a declaration to acquire or recover Belgian nationality must satisfy various requirements and follow a standard procedure, as follows: Residence period The person is required to have had their main residence in Belgium for the prescribed period on a legal and uninterrupted basis. This condition can be satisfied by having continuously held an identity card of type A, B, C, D, E/E+, F/F+, H or M, or a series of these cards. Additionally, EU citizens benefit from a "declarative" right of residence, and can therefore count their legal residence as beginning from the day they first registered at their municipality, rather than the day on which they were first issued their identity card, which could be weeks or months later. For example, in the case of a holder of an E card, the person may count the period during which they held an "Annexe 19" indicating they had requested an E card. During the prescribed residence period, the person cannot have been absent from Belgium for more than six consecutive months OR one fifth of the total period. Right to permanent residence The person is also required, as at the time of the declaration, to hold the right to continue residing in Belgium indefinitely. This condition can be satisfied by producing an identity card of type B, C, K, L, E/E+, F/F+ or M. Identity cards of type A or H are not valid as they provide only a temporary right of residence. Declaration text The person is required to sign a statement, which includes the following text written out by hand: “I declare my desire to acquire the Belgian nationality and to submit myself to the Constitution, the laws of Belgium, and to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.” (“Je déclare vouloir acquérir la nationalité belge et me soumettre à la Constitution, aux lois du peuple belge et à la Convention de sauvegarde des droits de l’homme et