Comments on: Stateless in New Nepal: Inclusion without Citizenship is Impossible

By: lajula maharjan

lajula maharjan — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:27:08 +0000

supporting to mr. suraj hazare a person who are being stateless in his or her own country due to being son or daughter of mother having Nepali citizenship but not of father should have citizenship on the basis of art 8(2) of interim constirution of Nepal a person can acquired citizenship on his or her mother or father name here we shall highlight the phrase mother or father here mother is in option instead of father or in absence of father due to various person. if a person born from Nepali women and has not acquired citizenship of any other state then state it self creating the problem of stateless ness and curtailing the huge number of right and duties provided by state it self.

By: suraj hazare dahal

suraj hazare dahal — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:16:48 +0000

I have read the atricle regarding citizenship and feedback of Mr. Surya Nath Upadhyaya. First I doubt that Mr. Updyaya can write such a goo English. Iam born from Nepali mother and Indian father in Pokhara, Nepal . I was born in Nepal and was in womb of Nepali mother so Iam Nepali though law of Nepal makes me an alien in my own country. The present interim constitution says that government of Nepal can give second class aquired citizenship to child born from Nepali mother married to foreign mother. But surprisingly there is nothing written what kind of citizenship will child get born from foreign woman and Nepali man . I have clear and real answer as CDO office doesnot ask about mother and leave empty space on mothers name normally so such child will get first class ancestrol citizenship . What a shameful and indiscrimination A child born from foreign lady is citizen of Nepal and child born from Nepali lady is like refugee in his/her own nation. This kind of law is made by patriarchal people. Aquired citizen is not a right. It is will of a government that either it can give aquired type citizenship. It means that if a child born to Nepali ask for citizenship then if CDO or Home ministry says NO then he/she cannot file case because it is aquired one. More bad condition is for son than daugher born from Nepali mother and forein fahther. Because in such case if daughter doesnot get Nepali aquired citizenhip based on Nepali mother then she can marry Nepali man to get citizenship.

By: surya Nath Upadhyay

surya Nath Upadhyay — Sun, 27 May 2012 10:46:05 +0000

The proposed provision that for acquiring citizenship of descent would require that both the parents of the child would have to be a Nepali citizen does not contradict with any of the conventions that Nepal has ratified so far in regard to discrimination against women. A child born out of the wedlock between a Nepali citizen and a foreigner can have citizenship certificate and be a Nepali citizen provided, however, that the nationality of both the parents and the place where the child is born have to be ascertained. This is important because the nationality of the parents the place of birth would certainly have a bearing on the nationality of the child. These facts whatever they are would have to be established. If one of the spouse is not traceable that also would have to be established and recorded. Once the fact is established and if the child has not taken any other citizenship certificate by virtue of his or her father or mother such child is certainly entitled under the law of Nepal to have an “acquired citizenship” ( Amgikrit Nagarikata). Hence, the issue of statelessness does not arise at all. To say without any base that there are 2.1 million stateless people is not only a distortion of the fact but also indicates that the opinion writers are advocates of certain mission rather than an analysts. One has to bear in mind that all those that pass from India to Nepal freely are not Nepalese. Please advocate for regulating Nepal India border the real problem.