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National Church Membership Continues To Decline
A new report from the National Registry shows that while the National Church is still the largest registered religious organisation in the country, its membership continues to decline; by roughly 6% since 2019. [su_pullquote]Best of Reykjavík 2022 Autumn edition is out! To…
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Foreign Nationals Now 14.5% Of Iceland’s Population
According to the latest data from the National Registry, immigration to Iceland slowed slightly between 2020 and 2021, but nearly 1 in 7 Icelanders are now foreign nationals. [su_pullquote]You can now take walking tours of Reykjavík with Grapevine crewmembers Valur, Pollý and…
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Iceland Eliminates Fees For Changing Name And Gender Marker
Yesterday, Iceland took a significant step forward when Parliament voted in favour of abolishing the 9,000 ISK fee levied for changing one’s name or gender marker in the National Registry. The change goes into effect immediately, but will take one or two…
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Rental Prices Vary Widely From Region To Region In Iceland
According to data from the National Registry for December 2020, there is a wide discrepancy over rent per square metre in different parts of Iceland, and across different regions of Reykjavík itself. This information is based solely on properties registered with their…
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MP Calls For An End To The “Trans Tax”
Member of Parliament Andrés Ingi Jónsson raised the issue of the 9,000 ISK fee being levied on people who seek to change their name and gender marker in the National Registry, Kjarninn reports, during a parliamentary session yesterday. As reported, shortly after…
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Trans Iceland Criticises High Cost Of Gender Registration
In the wake of recent news that nonbinary people in Iceland can now register their correct gender with the National Registry, one wrinkle in this news has attracted the criticism of Trans Iceland: the cost. As reported, the passage of Iceland’s gender…
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Nonbinary Gender Registration Finally Opens In Iceland
About a year and a half since Iceland’s gender determination law established that people must be allowed to register their gender as nonbinary*, the National Registry has finally made that option available. Before the law was passed in June 2019, only two…
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Humanism And Ásatrú Paganism On The Rise In Iceland
Humanism is the fastest-growing religious or philosophical group in Iceland, closely followed by Ásatrú paganism, according to the latest National Registry figures. Meanwhile, membership to the National Church of Iceland continues to dwindle. Between December 2019 and June 1st, the number of members…
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Parliament Expediting Changes To Gender Law In Response To National Registry Decision
Parliament has just introduced an amendment to the gender determination law last summer that specifically adds one sentence, and appears to apply to the case of a trans woman who has been denied proper name and gender registration by the National Registry.…
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Registry’s Decision Regarding Trans Woman Goes Against Spirit Of The Law, PM And Others Say
In a statement to the Grapevine, the National Registry has denied breaking Iceland’s gender determination law by refusing to change the registered name and gender of an Icelandic citizen with a legal address registered abroad. However, a lawyer the Grapevine spoke with…
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Trans Woman Denied Proper Name And Gender Registration, Despite Law
Alda Vigdís Skarphéðinsdóttir, an Icelandic trans woman with a legal address in Germany, was denied being able to change her name and registered gender with the National Registry. While the Registry cited her legal address as the reason for their rejection, Iceland’s…
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Iceland’s National Church Declining; Catholic Church, Ásatrú And Unaffiliated Rising
The latest data from the National Registry shows some interesting trends over the past two months regarding how Icelanders are registered in which religious organisations—or not. According to the data, which was gathered from December 1 of last year to February 1,…
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Church Loses, Zuism Gains Followers
Thousands left the National Church – and thousands more became Zuists – during the last quarter of 2015, new data from the National Registry reveals. According to the newly-released figures, some 2,400 Icelanders de-registered from the National Church between October 1 and…
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Jón Gnarr To Appeal Name Change Case
Former Mayor of Reykjavík Jón Gnarr plans to appeal a decision by the National Registry which prevents him from changing his legal name to Jón Gnarr. Vísir reports that Jón recently filed a formal request with the National Registry to change his…
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News In Brief Early August
A whole new angle on the ever-brewing Ministry of the Interior scandal came to light when it was reported that Interior Minister Hanna Birna had contacted then-Commissioner of the Capital Area Police Stefán Eiríksson, in person and by phone, in part to…
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So What’s This Naming Law I Keep Hearing About?
Harriet Cardew, the adorable ten-year-old daughter of an Englishman and an Icelandic woman, has been in the world news lately because the Icelandic National Registry refused to approve a passport for her because it does not approve of the name Harriet. Nor…