{"id":17368,"date":"2018-04-13T13:35:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=17368"},"modified":"2018-05-03T13:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T13:44:31","slug":"uganda-says-israel-gives-deported-asylum-seekers-fake-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/uganda-says-israel-gives-deported-asylum-seekers-fake-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Says Israel Gives Deported Asylum Seekers Fake Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in the Ugandan president&#8217;s office say visas Israel gives to asylum seekers on their way to Entebbe Airport &#8216;bear no resemblance to any document our government issues&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>By Lee Yaron<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-body-text\">Uganda says its supposedly official documents that Israel gives departing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/misc\/tags\/asylum-seekers-1.5599322\">asylum seekers<\/a> are \u201ccomplete fakes.\u201d The Population, Immigration and Border Authority issues deportees documents bearing the Ugandan Interior Ministry insignia. They are not signed by anyone in the Israeli authority. Officials in the Ugandan president\u2019s office say they are forgeries \u201cbearing no resemblance to any document our government issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-body-text\">At the airport, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-asylum-seekers-sent-to-uganda-illegally-without-yellow-fever-vaccine-1.5979467\">asylum seekers leaving Israel<\/a> are given several documents by immigration authority officials, such as a flight ticket, a transit pass and a paper entitled \u201cArriving to Uganda Visa Confirmation,\u201d which states that on arrival at Entebbe Airport, the bearer will be given an entrance visa. The document includes the passenger\u2019s personal details and wishes him \u201ca nice trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-body-text\">Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-uganda-says-israel-gives-deported-asylum-seekers-fake-visas-1.5994836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-uganda-says-israel-gives-deported-asylum-seekers-fake-visas-1.5994836<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials in the Ugandan president&#8217;s office say visas Israel gives to asylum seekers on their way to Entebbe Airport &#8216;bear no resemblance to any document our government issues&#8217; By Lee Yaron Uganda says its supposedly official documents that Israel gives departing asylum seekers are \u201ccomplete fakes.\u201d The Population, Immigration and Border Authority issues deportees documents [&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-17368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-uganda","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-nationality-and-refugees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368","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=17368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17369,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368\/revisions\/17369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}