{"id":27431,"date":"2019-09-13T22:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T22:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=27431"},"modified":"2020-06-30T22:54:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T22:54:04","slug":"citizenship-of-zimbabwe-by-birth-for-persons-born-abroad-upheld-by-the-supreme-court-of-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/citizenship-of-zimbabwe-by-birth-for-persons-born-abroad-upheld-by-the-supreme-court-of-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizenship of Zimbabwe by birth for persons born abroad upheld by the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizenship of Zimbabwe by birth for persons born abroad upheld by the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe!<\/p>\n<p>Today we were in the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe for a determination of a matter concerning the citizenship status of persons born abroad to parents who were citizens of Zimbabwe at the time a person was born.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe heard oral legal argument in the case of Neha Patel v Registrar General of Zimbabwe &amp; 4 Ors Case No. SC.888|18 being an appeal from a decision of the High Court of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the hearing, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe upheld the appeal by consent of the Government of Zimbabwe;<\/p>\n<p>The judgment of the High Court of Zimbabwe which had dismissed the Appellant\u2019s application to be declared a citizen of Zimbabwe was set aside.<\/p>\n<p>The Appellant was declared a citizen of Zimbabwe by birth with all the rights and entitlements of such a citizen including but not limited to a citizen identity card and a Zimbabwe passport;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/trm.co.zw\/?p=253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/trm.co.zw\/?p=253<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citizenship of Zimbabwe by birth for persons born abroad upheld by the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe! Today we were in the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe for a determination of a matter concerning the citizenship status of persons born abroad to parents who were citizens of Zimbabwe at the time a person was born. The Supreme [&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-27431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-acquisition-by-children"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27431","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=27431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27432,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27431\/revisions\/27432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}