{"id":1078,"date":"2002-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/2002-somalia-citizenship-law\/"},"modified":"2021-10-01T15:40:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:40:39","slug":"somaliland-citizenship-law-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/somaliland-citizenship-law-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Somaliland Citizenship Law No 22 of 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law on citizenship for the unrecognised state of Somaliland.<\/p>\n<p>Article 2: Citizenship by birth<\/p>\n<p>1. A Somaliland citizen by birth is anyone whose father is a descendent of persons who resided in the territory of Somaliland on 26 June 1960 and before.<\/p>\n<p>2. A Somaliland citizen by birth may acquire the citizenship of another country (dual nationality) without losing his Somaliland citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>3. Unless he has not voluntarily renounced the right to Somaliland citizenship, any adult progeny of a male Somaliland citizen, who resides in a foreign country or is a citizen of another country or is a refugee in another country may acquire Somaliland citizenship on his first return to the territory of Somaliland.<\/p>\n<p>Download file (translation by SomalilandLaw): <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Somaliland_Citizenship_Law_22-02_2002.pdf\" rel=\"\">Somaliland Citizenship Law 2002<\/a>\u00a0(PDF. 106 kb)<\/p>\n<p>In Somali: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somalilandlaw.com\/Xeerka_Jinsiyadda.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.somalilandlaw.com\/Xeerka_Jinsiyadda.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law on citizenship for the unrecognised state of Somaliland. Article 2: Citizenship by birth 1. A Somaliland citizen by birth is anyone whose father is a descendent of persons who resided in the territory of Somaliland on 26 June 1960 and before. 2. A Somaliland citizen by birth may acquire the citizenship of another country [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","region-somalia","type-national-laws-and-regulations","item-year-480","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33340,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/33340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}