{"id":19705,"date":"2018-08-26T16:34:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T16:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=19705"},"modified":"2018-09-04T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T16:36:12","slug":"over-80-ugandans-in-diaspora-granted-dual-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/over-80-ugandans-in-diaspora-granted-dual-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 80 Ugandans in diaspora granted dual citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ugandan law, any Ugandan can apply for dual citizenship, as long as one fulfills the requirements for dual nationality.<\/p>\n<p>AMSTERDAM &#8211; <strong>A team of officials from Uganda&#8217;s internal affairs ministry has handed certificates of dual citizenship to over 80 Ugandans living abroad in the Netherlands capital Amsterdam.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The delegation from the Directorate of Dual Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) was led by the department&#8217;s acting director, Josephine Ekwang Ali.<\/p>\n<p>At the Ugandan embassy in Amsterdam, the first beneficiary of the service was <em>Omulangira<\/em> David Ssimbwa, a resident of Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed his delight over the speed with which the officials working on the programme efficiently processed his certificate in one day.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/new_vision\/news\/1484358\/80-ugandans-diaspora-granted-dual-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/new_vision\/news\/1484358\/80-ugandans-diaspora-granted-dual-citizenship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Ugandan law, any Ugandan can apply for dual citizenship, as long as one fulfills the requirements for dual nationality. AMSTERDAM &#8211; A team of officials from Uganda&#8217;s internal affairs ministry has handed certificates of dual citizenship to over 80 Ugandans living abroad in the Netherlands capital Amsterdam. The delegation from the Directorate of [&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-19705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-uganda","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-dual-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705","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=19705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19708,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions\/19708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}