312. See more about the procedure and offices for registration: https://www.sivirtual.gov.co/ memoficha-tramite/-/tramite/T13. 313. The Superintendence of Notary and Registration Service is a financially and administratively autonomous entity ascribed to the Ministry of Justice in charge of monitoring, inspecting, and controlling the delivery of public notary and registration services. 314. Superintendent of Notary and Registry Services, Instrucción Administrativa 07 de 1997, “La nacionalidad Colombiana por nacimiento, frente al registro como medio probatorio del estado civil: el testimonio como elemento de convicción. Requisitos,” March 13, 1997, available at: https://www.minjusticia. gov.co/portals/0/MJD/docs/instruccion_superregistro_0007_1997.htm. 315. The acción de tutela, or acción de amparo in other Latin American countries, is an individual constitutional writ of protection. In Colombia, Article 86 of the Constitution provides for this legal action in the following terms: “Every individual may claim legal protection before the judge, at any time or place, through a preferential and summary proceeding, for himself/herself or by whoever acts in his/her name, the immediate protection of his/her fundamental constitutional rights when the individual fears the latter may be jeopardized or threatened by the action or omission of any public authority. The protection will consist of an order so that whoever solicits such protection may receive it by a judge enjoining others to act or refrain from acting. The order, which will have to be implemented immediately, may be challenged before the competent judge, and in any case the latter may send it to the Constitutional Court for possible revision. This action will be followed only when the affected party does not have access to other means of judicial defense, except when the former is used as a temporary device to avoid irreversible harm. In no case can more than ten (10) days elapse between the request for protection and its resolution. The law will establish the cases in which the order of protection should apply to individuals entrusted with providing a public service or whose conduct may seriously and directly affect the collective interest or in respect of whom the applicant may find himself/herself in a state of subordination or vulnerability.” Translation by Marcia W. Coward, Peter B. Heller, Anna I. Vellve Torras, and the Max Planck Institute. Prepared for distribution on constituteproject.org. 316. Articles 44 and 50 of Decree 1260 of 2007 and Article 1 Decree 999 of 1988. 317. Article 96.1(a) of the Constitution reads, “either of the parents was domiciled in the Republic at the time of birth.” 318. Legal interpretation concept number S-GNC 15-016796, given by the Coordinator of the Internal Group on Nationality of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and petitioned by Civil Registry, February 24, 2015. 319. Office of the Colombian Civil Registry, Administrative order No. 059, March 26, 2015, available at: http://www.registraduria.gov.co/Direccion-de-Registro-Civil-emite.html. 320. UNHCR, ACNUR reconoce labor de la Registraduría Nacional y la Cancillería por sus esfuerzos en erradicar las causas de apatridia en Colombia, January 12, 2016, available at: http://www. registraduria.gov.co/ACNUR-reconoce-labor-de-la.html. 321. UNCHR, “Circular 059: Buena práctica del Estado Colombiano para mitigar los riesgos de apatridia,” Press release, December 29, 2015, available at: http://www.acnur.org/t3/noticias/noticia/ circular-059-buena-practica-del-estado-colombiano-para-mitigar-los-riesgos-de-apatridia/. BORN IN THE AMERICAS 113