{"id":14938,"date":"2017-11-01T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=14938"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:50:56","slug":"more-namibians-marry-foreign-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/more-namibians-marry-foreign-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"More Namibians marry foreign nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Amakali<\/p>\n<p>Windhoek-The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration has revealed that more Namibians are entering into marriage with foreign nationals. The ministry recorded a total of 6,512 marriages from 2016 to 2017 and of that number 440 were of Namibians who married foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2014 and 2015 home affairs and immigration issued around 890 identity certificates to foreign nationals who became Namibian citizens by virtue of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have picked up that more Namibian women are the ones marrying foreigners compared to Namibian men actually taking foreign brides,\u201d explained the immigration ministry\u2019s spokesperson Salome Kambala.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newera.com.na\/2017\/11\/01\/more-namibians-marry-foreign-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newera.com.na\/2017\/11\/01\/more-namibians-marry-foreign-nationals\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria Amakali Windhoek-The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration has revealed that more Namibians are entering into marriage with foreign nationals. The ministry recorded a total of 6,512 marriages from 2016 to 2017 and of that number 440 were of Namibians who married foreign nationals. Between 2014 and 2015 home affairs and immigration issued around [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-namibia","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938","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=14938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14939,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938\/revisions\/14939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}