200. Ibid. Process as set out by Administrative Order No. 1375 of 2014, available at: https://www.
registrocivil.cl/PortalOI/transparencia/marcoNormativo/Rex_3207.pdf.
201. Bley and Pérez, op. cit.
202. These organizaitons continue their work identifying the populaiton in Chile that can benefit
from the change in the adminstrative interpretation, and to guarantee their access to means of
rectifying their documents of identity. As a result of their engagement with other partner NGOs,
UNHCR and the Ministry of Foreign and Migration Affairs increased progress was achieved in
2016. In 2017 they expect to provide up-to-date mapping of the affected population, and numbers
of registrations rectified.
203. Universidad Diego Portales, Centro de Derechos Humanos, Comunicado de Prensa, November 11, 2015, available at: http://www.derechoshumanos.udp.cl/derechoshumanos/index.php/
section-table/item/215-presentan-recurso-de-reclamacion-de-nacionalidad-para-161-ninos-nacidosen-chile.
204. Delfina Lawson, quoted by Bley and Pérez, op. cit.
205. Universidad Diego Portales, Centro de Derechos Humanos, Informe Anual 2014,
op. cit., 299.
206. Ibid.
207. However, Amnesty International reported that 2,841 children were registered as child of
transient foreigners between 2011 and 2014, “Niños y niñas apátridas en Chile: El abandono por
parte del Estado” December 1, 2014, available at: http://www.theclinic.cl/2014/12/01/ninos-y-ninasapatridas-en-chile-el-abandono-por-parte-del-estado/.
208. Claudio Fuentes Maureira, Víctor Hugo Lagos, Delfina Lawson, and Macarena Rodríguez,
“3.000 niños esperando su nacionalidad: La necesidad de contar con remedios colectivos para
resolver vulneraciones individuales de derechos,” in Anuario de Derecho Público Universidad Diego
Portales, August 2016, 549, citing Freedom of Information Request SRCel No. AK002W004336.
209. Rural areas such as Huara, Pica, Pozo Almonte, Colchane, and Valle de Azapa. See also,
Maureira, Lagos, Lawson and Rodríguez, op. cit., 558.
210. Reply by the Legal Division of the Civil Registry and Identification Service to freedom of
information request No. 11027, June 2, 2015.
211. Information gathered through interviews held with the researchers at Universidad Diego
Portales and Universidad Alberto Hurtado in the month of October 2015.
212. Ibid. A case of a child born in Chile to undocumented parents, who had been registered as
child of transient foreigner, had excelled in his academic schooling and his grade point average had
made him eligible to receive a computer to help his schooling activities. However, given his status
as a non-national, he had been ineligible to receive the computer.
213. Bley and Pérez, op. cit.
214. Law 4808, Article 31; Decree with Force of Law 2128 of 1930 Article 121 and 122.
215. This obligation is established for citizens by Decreto-Ley No. 26 of 1924 and for foreigners by
Decreto Ley No.1094 of 1975 and Supreme Decree No. 597 of 1984. As cited in the reply by the Legal
Division of the Civil Registry and Identification Service to freedom of information request. No.
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