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The Vola ni Kawa Bula, commonly known as the VKB, is the official Fijian register of native landowners. It is known in English as the Native Land Register. By law, all indigenous Fijians who are now to be known as iTaukei [1] are entitled to be enrolled as members of the VKB, which is in the charge of the Native Lands Commission. [2]
Individuals born while the 1990 Constitution of Fiji was in force only received Fijian citizenship at birth if at least one parent was a Fijian citizen. Children born to foreign government officials with diplomatic immunity are not usually citizens at birth, unless one or both parents are also Fijian citizens.
It is the successor of the Central Archives of Fiji and the Western Pacific High Commission, established in 1954. [1] [2] [3] Its name changed to the National Archives of Fiji in 1971, shortly after Fiji's independence. [1] The agency is responsible for archiving records of the Fijian government. [1]
In the case of applying for a U.S. passport, not all legitimate government-issued birth certificates are acceptable: A certified birth certificate has a registrar's raised, embossed, impressed or multicolored seal, registrar's signature, and the date the certificate was filed with the registrar's office, which must be within 1 year of your birth.
They were followed by the Melanesians in about 500 BCE, and trading with Tongans and Samoans since Fiji was founded, has added to the cultural mix. In the Later years, there was active commerce between Tonga and Fiji, and later in the history of this relationship, the Fijians in the Lau Islands (Eastern Fiji) became vassals to the King of Tonga.
The Fijian Government exercises the executive functions and powers within the Republic of Fiji. This article lists spans of government ministries under a prime minister. [1] The distinctive periods of these ministries consist of post-independence, post-2000 Coup d'état, and post 2006 Coup d'état.
Fiji [n 1] (/ ˈ f iː dʒ i / ⓘ FEE-jee, / f iː ˈ dʒ iː / fee-JEE; [11] Fijian: Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, [n 2] is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,100 nautical miles (2,000 km; 1,300 mi) north-northeast of New Zealand.
Fiji had no constitutional government between 28 September and 6 October 1987; any child born abroad whose father was a citizen is taken to be a citizen. Moreover, any person born in Fiji during the time in which the constitution prior to the present one was in operation, is deemed to be a citizen of Fiji, if he or she would otherwise be ...