{"id":2874,"date":"2021-09-02T11:32:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/m75k-for-lesotho-citizenship"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:57:55","slug":"m75k-for-lesotho-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/m75k-for-lesotho-citizenship","title":{"rendered":"M75k for Lesotho citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>FOREIGNERS applying for Lesotho citizenship will now have to fork out a staggering M75 000, up from M40 000. This is after the Senate passed the Lesotho Citizenship (Amendment of Schedule) Regulations 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Senators who spoke after the new law was passed said the move was meant to \u201cweed out useless foreigners\u201d who apply for Lesotho citizenship. The Senators unanimously agreed that it was about time that prices for Lesotho citizenship were bumped up.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the House yesterday, former home affairs minister, Tsukutlane Au, said the amount was as low as M2 000 in recent years and was then pushed to M5 000.<\/p>\n<p>Au said after an application is granted, a foreigner will then pay a fee to be a citizen of Lesotho. \u201cIt was M30 000 back then but the ministry asked for M40 000 later,\u201d Au said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the committee accepted the increase of M70 000 on issuing of citizenship and now the overall total is M75 000. He also said for children the fee will now be M50 000.<\/p>\n<p>He said a married couple will now pay M90 000 total to be citizens of Lesotho. Au called on the Ministry of Home Affairs to research how other countries were handling similar processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to find the best foreigners,\u201d he said. He also recommended the freshening up of the Citizens Act as the current one is outdated. The Citizens Act was enacted in 1971. He also said they expect new citizens without criminal offences.<\/p>\n<p>Au\u2019s motion was seconded by Chieftainess Kholu Moshoeshoe who said people given citizenship should go through a screening process so that Lesotho does not take \u201cuseless foreign citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Peete Lesaoana Peete said in the Senate Legislation Committee they recently discussed a case of a Ugandan couple that died leaving their children alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe children were born in Lesotho and later their parents died. The children do not know Uganda and their native language but were left alone by parents in Lesotho,\u201d Chief Peete said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are saying the ministry should look into such cases,\u201d he said. Chief Seeiso Bereng Seeiso said \u201cLesotho citizenship should not be prostituted\u201d. \u201cPeople should know we have a right to refuse,\u201d Chief Seeiso said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe essence of revenue generation should not be a priority on the matter,\u201d he said, proposing stricter conditions for a foreigner to qualify to be a Mosotho.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should accept people with the element of skills.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. FOREIGNERS applying for Lesotho citizenship will now have to fork out a staggering M75 000, up from M40 000. This is after the Senate passed the Lesotho Citizenship (Amendment of Schedule) Regulations 2019. Senators who spoke after the new law was passed said the move was meant to \u201cweed out useless foreigners\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[233,246,373,245],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-citizenship","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>M75k for Lesotho citizenship - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/m75k-for-lesotho-citizenship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"M75k for Lesotho citizenship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. 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