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Ugandan nationality law is regulated by the Constitution of Uganda, as amended; the Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Control Act; and various international agreements to which the country is a signatory. [1] [2] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a national of Uganda. [3] [4] The legal means to acquire nationality, formal ...
The National Identification and Registration Authority ( NIRA) is a government-owned organisation in Uganda, mandated to register births and deaths in the country and to develop a National Identification Register for both citizens and legally resident non-citizens. NIRA is also mandated to issue national identification numbers and cards for ...
The number of multiracial Ugandans in Uganda is not known or tracked. The " one-drop rule ," [7] [8] derived from the Southern United States slave culture, does not apply to multiracial Ugandans living in Uganda. Thus, mixed-race descendants of blacks and non-blacks in Uganda, like the mixed-race people of Brazil, Colombia, Panama, and other ...
The Constitution of Uganda is the supreme law of Uganda. The fourth and current constitution was promulgated on 8 October 1995. It sanctions a republican form of government with a powerful President . The first Constitution was adopted in 1962 only to be replaced 4 years later in 1966. The 1966 Constitution, passed in a tense political ...
Ugandan Nationality. Expiration. 10 years after issuance. Cost. UGX 250,000/= for ordinary passports. UGX 400,000 service and official passports. UGX 500,000 for diplomatic Passports. The Ugandan passport is a document issued to citizens of Uganda for international travel. [1]
Ugandan passport. Visa requirements for Ugandan citizens are administrative entry restrictions imposed on citizens of Uganda by the authorities of other states. As of 2 July 2019, Ugandan citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 65 countries and territories, ranking the Ugandan passport 79th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.
Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. [1] Though citizenship is often legally conflated with nationality in today's Anglo-Saxon world, [2] [3] [4] international law does not usually use the term citizenship to refer to nationality, [5] [6] these two notions being conceptually different dimensions of collective membership.
Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth. The definition of naturalization by the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations excludes citizenship that is automatically acquired (e.g. at birth) or is acquired by declaration.