Constitutional Court rules Seoul's lack of birth registration regulations for foreigners unconstitutional
Korea's Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the country's lack of legal provisions for registering the births of foreign nationals born in the country is unconstitutional. In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that the state had the responsibility to guarantee the right to immediate birth registrations for all individuals irrespective of their nationality or legal status. The decision…
The Constitutional Court of South Korea has ruled that the country's absence of legal provisions for registering the births of foreign nationals born in the nation is unconstitutional. The unanimous decision underscores the state's responsibility to ensure immediate birth registrations for all individuals, regardless of nationality or legal status.
The ruling stems from a 2022 petition filed by an undocumented Vietnamese national whose child was born in South Korea in 2019. Due to the lack of registration rules and the parents' undocumented status, the child's birth could not be registered locally until 2020, in accordance with Vietnamese law. The court emphasized that nationality should not be a factor in guaranteeing the right to birth registration.
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