{"id":40212,"date":"2024-01-25T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=40212"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:41:26","slug":"uk-resident-wins-legal-battle-for-kenyan-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/uk-resident-wins-legal-battle-for-kenyan-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"UK resident wins legal battle for Kenyan citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Kiplagat Court Reporter<\/p>\n<p>The High Court has given the government up to six months to grant Kenyan citizenship to a Kenyan-born UK resident.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Lawrence Mugambi ruled that the delay in processing Hamza Mohamed Osman&#8217;s documents was unreasonable and violated his right to a speedy administrative process.<\/p>\n<p>He applied to have his citizenship restored in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/uk-resident-wins-legal-battle-for-kenyan-citizenship-4503158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/uk-resident-wins-legal-battle-for-kenyan-citizenship-4503158<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sam Kiplagat Court Reporter The High Court has given the government up to six months to grant Kenyan citizenship to a Kenyan-born UK resident. Justice Lawrence Mugambi ruled that the delay in processing Hamza Mohamed Osman&#8217;s documents was unreasonable and violated his right to a speedy administrative process. He applied to have his citizenship [&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-40212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-695","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40212","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=40212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40213,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40212\/revisions\/40213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}