300. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ reply to a freedom of information request, May 14, 2015. 301. In Spanish, the original text reads: Parágrafo 3°. De conformidad con lo señalado en el artículo 20 del Pacto de San José de Costa Rica, en la Convención de los Derechos del Niño y en el artículo 93 de la Constitución Política, los hijos de extranjeros nacidos en territorio colombiano a los cuales ningún Estado les reconozca la nacionalidad, serán colombianos y no se les exigirá prueba de domicilio, y a fin de acreditar que ningún otro Estado les reconoce la nacionalidad se requerirá declaración de la Misión Diplomática o consular del estado de la nacionalidad de los padres. Law 43 of 1993, available at: http:// www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=286. 302. Article 28 of Law 43 of 1993 restricts the following public offices as exclusive to Colombian nationals by birth: president or vice president of the Republic, senator, judge of the Constitutional Court, judge of the Supreme Court, judge of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary, attorney general, member of the National Electoral Council, national registrar, general comptroller, head of the Public Ministry, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of National Defense, member of any of the Armed Forces as officers, and director of intelligence and security. 303. About $104 USD. Figure according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. 304. The monthly minimum wage for Colombia for the year of 2015 was 644,350 CP. Accordingly the processing fee is over 56% of this figure. The law does not cover undocumented migrants and many earn less than the minimum wage, so this fee could easily be an insurmountable obstacle for such parents. 305. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Reply number S-GCIAC-15-088363 to Freedom of Information Request No 2015/1053992. Dated September 11, 2015. 306. The total number of granted naturalizations in 2014 was 146. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was unable to provide the statistics on naturalization disaggregated according to grounds under which applicants based the petition to naturalize. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. Reply dated April 29, 2015, to the freedom of information request filed on April 9, 2015. 307. A total of 17,953 (9,401 male and 8,552 female) were reported by the Office of the Civil Registry to the freedom of information request filed May 1, 2015, accounting for births of children in the Colombian territory to foreign father and mother since 1993, when the nationality law was enacted. Ibid. 308. The mechanisms available to review administrative decisions are established in Article 74 of Law 1431 of 2011, http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=41249. 309. The administrative jurisdiction is competent to entertain claims and disputes arising out of or related to acts, contracts, omissions, and operations subject to administrative law, where public entities or private parties performing administrative functions are involved. The Administrative Jurisdiction is comprised of the Council of State, the supreme tribunal for administrative matters, administrative judicial district courts, and administrative judges. See also, Law 1437 of 2001. 310. See also, website of the National Civil Registrar: http://www.registraduria.gov.co/Informacion/preg_frec.htm. 311. See also, http://www.registraduria.gov.co/-Registro-de-Nacimiento-.html. 112 ENDNOTES