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. This unanimous decision came after an undocumented Vietnamese national filed a petition in 2022, following the birth of his child in Korea in 2019.
The child could not be immediately registered locally due to the lack of registration rules and the undocumented status of both parents. The court emphasized that nationality should not be a factor in guaranteeing the right to birth registration.
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