{"id":42684,"date":"2024-10-29T13:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T11:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42684"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:04:08","slug":"botswana-citizenship-amendment-act-23-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/botswana-citizenship-amendment-act-23-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Citizenship Amendment Act, No. 23 of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amending the <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/botswana-citizenship-act-1998-cap-101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citizenship Act 1998<\/a> (Cap.1.01 of the Laws of Botswana), to provide for dual citizenship to be permitted for adults (previously only allowed for children), for the right to citizenship for foundlings, and a right to register as a citizen for stateless persons who have been legally resident for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Download the act: <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Botswana-Citizenship-Amendment-Act-2024.pdf\">Botswana Citizenship Amendment Act 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download the bill with explanatory memorandum: <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Botswana-Citizenship-Amendment-Bill-2024.pdf\">Botswana Citizenship Amendment Bill 2024<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amending the Citizenship Act 1998 (Cap.1.01 of the Laws of Botswana), to provide for dual citizenship to be permitted for adults (previously only allowed for children), for the right to citizenship for foundlings, and a right to register as a citizen for stateless persons who have been legally resident for 20 years. Download the act: [&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-42684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-botswana","type-national-laws-and-regulations","item-year-695","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42684","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=42684"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42725,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42684\/revisions\/42725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}