{"id":16431,"date":"2018-03-27T09:07:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T09:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=16431"},"modified":"2018-03-27T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T22:13:00","slug":"kenya-immigration-boss-sends-miguna-citizenship-forms-at-jkia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-immigration-boss-sends-miguna-citizenship-forms-at-jkia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Immigration boss sends Miguna citizenship forms at JKIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Wangui Ngechu<\/p>\n<p>The immigration department has moved in to resolve the <a href=\"https:\/\/citizentv.co.ke\/news\/drama-at-jkia-as-miguna-is-denied-entry-journalists-injured-194932\/\">Miguna Miguna entry standoff <\/a>by sending\u00a0application forms to the airport for him to regularise his citizenship status.<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement, Acting Director of Immigration Services Joseph Munywoki indicated that Miguna is expected to duly fill the\u00a0requisite documents for processing.<\/p>\n<p>The department sought to clarify why Miguna was denied entry saying that he refused to present his Canadian passport for processing.<\/p>\n<p>He instead produced his Kenyan ID, a document\u00a0 that Immigration insists can only be accepted as a travel document to and fro the Northern Corridor countries of Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/citizentv.co.ke\/news\/miguna-jkia-immigration-citizenship-194954\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/citizentv.co.ke\/news\/miguna-jkia-immigration-citizenship-194954\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Wangui Ngechu The immigration department has moved in to resolve the Miguna Miguna entry standoff by sending\u00a0application forms to the airport for him to regularise his citizenship status. In a press statement, Acting Director of Immigration Services Joseph Munywoki indicated that Miguna is expected to duly fill the\u00a0requisite documents for processing. The department sought [&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-16431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16431","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=16431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16433,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16431\/revisions\/16433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}