By Sipokazi Fokazi Marriages of convenience, which are mostly used by foreigners to gain SA citizenship will become a “dangerous game” to play in future, warns home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi. While the country has become a haven for bogus […]
Art 1: La présente loi a pour objet d’organiser l’état civil en République du Tchad et de fixer les conditions des actes y relatifs. Art.84: La présente loi abroge toutes dispositions antérieures contraires, notamment la Loi no 13-08 du 10 […]
On 1 January 2013, at least five South African citizens potentially lost their citizenship after the current South African Citizenship Amendment Act came into effect, argued Lawyers for Human Rights. After the High Court declared the act constitutionally invalid, the […]
Une réforme et une informatisation de l’état civil seront effectuées prochainement, selon une décision prise en conseil des ministres, mercredi, au Palais d’Etat d’Iavoloha. « Une nouvelle organisation et une nouvelle stratégie de distribution de documents d’état civil seront mises en […]
Une réforme et une informatisation de l’état civil seront effectuées prochainement, selon une décision prise en conseil des ministres, mercredi, au Palais d’Etat d’Iavoloha. « Une nouvelle organisation et une nouvelle stratégie de distribution de documents d’état civil seront mises en […]
By Anna Chibamu ALL citizens who paid $53 to get an ordinary passport before the fees were raised to $253, are expected to pay the difference of $200 before their travel documents are processed. This was announced Thursday by the […]
A case brought before court on behalf of a group of stateless people, claiming that they lost their South African citizenship by descent when the law was changed, has revealed absolute chaos at the Department of Home Affairs, which had […]
Une session de formation sur le Plan national d’action pour l’élimination de l’apatridie en Côte d’Ivoire (PNAEA-CI) et la loi instituant une procédure spéciale de déclaration de naissance, de rétablissement d’identité et de transcription d’acte de naissance, s’est tenue le […]
by Roxane Bayer THE Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration is investigating 70 cases of sham marriages between Namibians and foreign nationals. During a media briefing in Windhoek yesterday, the deputy minister of home affairs and immigration, Maureen Hinda-Mbuende, revealed […]
HARARE, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) — Zimbabwe is battling to clear a backlog of more than 400,000 passports dating as far back as 2018 due to shortage of foreign currency to import required consumables, Registrar-General Clemence Masango said Thursday. He told […]
Case Number: CCT155/19 Hearing Date: 13 February 2020 [judgment reserved] MEDIA SUMMARY The following explanatory note is provided to assist the media in reporting this case and is not binding on the Constitutional Court or any member of the Court. […]
Ethiopia’s electoral agency asked immigration authorities to establish the citizenship of a prominent critic of the Horn of Africa government’s leadership, just months before national elections. Jawar Mohammed, a member of the Oromo Federalist Congress, gave up his U.S. citizenship […]