The Respondent State indeed admitted that there has been a misapplication of the law which has resulted in the current communication before the Committee. proceeding. However, it was alluded by the Respondent State that Ms lman is in a position of obtaining nationality through her mother. 72.On the other hand, the Respondent State, while presenting its oral arguments during the hearing, produced a travel document that was issued in 2012 by Republic of South Sudan Ministry of Interior Department of Immigration, which mentions that Ms lman Benjamin is South Sudanese by nationality; hence it is the Respondent State's submission that she is not stateless. 73.On the question of Ms lman Benjamin's ID, the Respondent State indicates that the constitutional court directed lman to seek administrative means. The Ministry of Interior does not directly issue IDs. It is up to Ms lman to seek the legal process; the Government of the Republic of the Sudan will then provide her an ID as soon as possible depending on the procedure of issuing ID card. 74. Replying to the Respondent State's submissions, the Complainants also presented their disagreement with the Republic of the Sudan's analysis of the issues. 75.Considering the arguments from both sides, the Committee identifies and analyses the issues as descried below. 76.As stated above, the Committee notes that the father of Ms lman Benjamin died on 29 January 2011 before secession of South Sudan and amendments to Sudan's nationality law were adopted. Section 10(3) of the Nationality Act (amendments) of 2011 provides that Sudanese nationality shall be revoked where the Sudanese nationality of the responsible father is revoked because of entitlement to South Sudanese nationality. 18 ??.Applying Section 10 (3) of Nationality Act requires at least to identify whether the child has responsible father or not and determine whether such father is entitled to South Sudanese nationality or not. As a matter of fact, a deceased father cannot be considered to be a 'responsible father' as he cannot be responsible 18 Section 10 (3) of the Nationality Act (Amendment) 2011 states that, 'without prejudice to section 15, Sudanese nationality shall be revoked where the Sudanese nationality of his responsible father is revoked in accordance to section 10 (2) of this Act. 2 0