Official notice.—Colombian citizens and foreigners., January 15, 1885

Official notice.—Colombian citizens and foreigners.

According to the tenor of article 31 of the national constitution, all such persons are Colombians, viz:

• Who have been or may be born in the territory of the United States of Colombia, although children of foreign parents transitory sojourners in the same, if they (the children) shall come and settle in the country.
• The children of a Colombian father or mother, whether born in the United States of Colombia or not, if, in the latter case, they shall come and settle in the country.
• Foreigners who have obtained letters of naturalization.
• Persons born in any of the Spanish American Republics, whenever they have settled in the territory of the Union and declared their desire to be Colombians before a competent authority.

As several cases have already occurred of Colombian citizens, merely on account of being sons of foreigners, pretending not to be Colombians, the attention of the public is directed to the national prescripts above set forth.

Notice is likewise given that the issue of passports, whether for the use of Colombians or of foreigners, is a function, exclusively pertaining to the constitutional authorities of the Republic.