{"id":6200,"date":"2016-06-24T18:10:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T18:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=6200"},"modified":"2016-11-14T22:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:39:51","slug":"supreme-court-confirms-childs-citizenship-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/supreme-court-confirms-childs-citizenship-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Supreme Court confirms child&#8217;s citizenship right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Werner Menges<\/p>\n<p>A CHILD born in Namibia to non-Namibian parents who meet the legal test of being ordinarily resident in the country is entitled to Namibian citizenship by birth, the Supreme Court affirmed in a landmark judgement on citizenship rights yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A non-Namibian living in Namibia on the basis of an employment permit can be considered to be ordinarily resident in the country if he or she meets the requirements for such a status, and when a child of such a person is born in Namibia, the child has the right to be a Namibian citizen by birth, the Supreme Court decided in a case in which a Dutch citizen sued the minister of home affairs in an effort to secure Namibian citizenship for one of his sons.<\/p>\n<p>Read further on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/index.php?page=archive-read&amp;id=152360\" target=\"_blank\">The Namibian website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Werner Menges A CHILD born in Namibia to non-Namibian parents who meet the legal test of being ordinarily resident in the country is entitled to Namibian citizenship by birth, the Supreme Court affirmed in a landmark judgement on citizenship rights yesterday. A non-Namibian living in Namibia on the basis of an employment permit can [&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-6200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-namibia","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200","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=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}