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Iran allows citizenship to be granted to children married to foreigners
Iran agreed to transfer citizenship to the children of Iranian women, after issuing the first 100 birth certificates and national identity cards, according to a law passed in 2019, after years of campaigns by women’s rights advocates and refugees. , amid concerns among foreigners married to Iranian women for fear of treating their children as citizens. second grade”.
Iran is home to one million registered Afghan refugees and nearly two million undocumented refugees on its territory, and the law’s enforcement affects the children of Iranian women married to Afghan men in particular, according to the Washington Post.
Only Iranian men could pass their nationality on to their children at birth. This has often left children born to Iranian mothers and foreign fathers without a national identity and without any rights to education, employment, health care and social services.
As of mid-November, some 75,000 people had applied for citizenship under the new law, according to Iran’s immigration office.
Some foreigners are wary that the Iranian government will not treat them fairly, after years of discrimination against them.
Ali, a former employee of the Afghan Consulate in Tehran, told the American newspaper: “I have three children from my Iranian wife, but we are not rushing to register them.”
Refugees without citizenship lack many basic rights in Iran, such as access to certain jobs and educational options, and are even prohibited from purchasing a SIM card entirely.
