{"id":17032,"date":"2018-04-13T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=17032"},"modified":"2018-04-13T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:47:16","slug":"migrants-born-in-sa-to-get-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/migrants-born-in-sa-to-get-birth-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants born in SA to get birth certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Xolisa Phillip<\/p>\n<p>Children born in SA to undocumented migrants are entitled to home affairs-issued birth certificates, in what is a major victory for migrants and the Legal Resources Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The centre announced on Thursday that, after much &#8220;back and forth&#8221; with the Department of Home Affairs, the department\u2019s &#8220;director of births, marriages, deaths and records management confirmed that [it was] &#8230; best to [issue] the DHA-19 birth certificate &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the birth certificate does not entitle its recipients to citizenship in SA.<\/p>\n<p>The centre intervened after being approached by a Congolese asylum seeker whose newborn son was refused a birth certificate by home affairs officials at the hospital where the baby was born.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2018-04-13-migrants-born-in-sa-to-get-birth-certificates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2018-04-13-migrants-born-in-sa-to-get-birth-certificates\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Xolisa Phillip Children born in SA to undocumented migrants are entitled to home affairs-issued birth certificates, in what is a major victory for migrants and the Legal Resources Centre. The centre announced on Thursday that, after much &#8220;back and forth&#8221; with the Department of Home Affairs, the department\u2019s &#8220;director of births, marriages, deaths and [&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-17032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-birth-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032","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=17032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17033,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032\/revisions\/17033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}