Questão jurídica principal
Whether the facilitated naturalization could be annulled under Art. 41 LN for false declarations or concealment of essential facts.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The rapid sequence of events created a presumption that the marital community was no longer stable when the common declaration was signed, and the applicant failed to rebut it.
Fundamentação extraída
The court held that annulment requires deceptive conduct, not merely unmet conditions. Here the short lapse between declaration, naturalization, separation, divorce, and remarriage supported the presumption of fraud. The applicant did not make plausible an extraordinary event or lack of awareness of the marriage problems at the relevant time.