{"id":620,"date":"2009-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"620"},"modified":"2009-02-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T00:00:00","slug":"acri-condemns-new-regulation-discriminating-against-common-law-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2009\/02\/22\/acri-condemns-new-regulation-discriminating-against-common-law-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"ACRI Condemns New Regulation Discriminating against Common-Law Couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lcass='pre'>Foreign partners of Israelis would wait longer to receive residency status than spouses<\/div>\n<p>A new regulation issued by the Interior Ministry discriminates against migrants residing in Israel who are common-law partners of Israeli citizens. The new regulation states that such migrants will be eligible for temporary resident status only three years after they file a request. At the same time, migrants residing here who are lawfully married to Israeli citizens are eligible for this status after 6 months only. With this regulation, the authorities are discriminating against couples who cannot marry, such as same-sex couples and couples of different religions, and those who do not want to. <\/p>\n<p>ACRI Attorney Oded Feller sent a letter to Yaakov Ganot, head of the Population Registry, on February 17 arguing that &#8220;the Interior Ministry is not upholding its constitutional obligations to uphold the right to family and right to equality.&#8221; ACRI demands that common-law couples and married couples receive the same rights, and that the new regulation not be implemented.  <\/p>\n<div class='footnote'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign partners of Israelis would wait longer to receive residency status than spouses A new regulation issued by the Interior &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2009\/02\/22\/acri-condemns-new-regulation-discriminating-against-common-law-couples\/\">Read more<span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citizenship-and-residency","category-democracy-and-civil-liberties"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}