If a person is born in Haiti of foreign parents or one foreign parent are they automatically a citizen if Haiti?
If a person is born in Haiti of foreign parents or one foreign parent are they automatically a citizen if Haiti?
You didn't read Article 11: If at least one Haitian parent.No. Haiti: Constitution, 1987
They can apply for naturalize citizenship after five years of residency
Ironic, isn't it, that they insist on becoming Dominican citizens just because they enter the world here?
Which is why the DR Constitution makes it clear. Unless you are here legally, foreigners born here are not citizens.
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http://www.entreculturas.org/files/...es/DOMINICANO_DOMINICANA_COMO_TU.pdf?download
The issue that some have been pressing is that the Junto Electoral appears to be denying Dominican citizenship to the children of ANY Haitian mother, even if the father is Dominican. And now there are reports that cedulas that have been held for years are not being renewed but confiscated as having been issued "illegally".
D?borah tiene 13 a?os, naci? en Santo Domingo y es hija de un dominicano y una haitiana.
Su padre muri? 9 meses despu?s de su nacimiento.
sorry.. perhaps the article did not say that. I only know that from interviewing hospital personel in Dajabon. They simply give the Libra Rosada paper to ANY Haitian mother, whether she has a cedula or not, whether the father is Dominican or not.. does not matter.
And what is clear is that the rules are uneven. being applied unevenly.
Stats were that even 15% of the Dominicans do not have papers. Do you have to come here to the Junta Electoral to get them or can the local Ayuntemto issue you everything you need?
The problem is that Haiti has been practically without a functioning state for the better part of thirty years.. And even what little it had was corrupt and operating only in Port Au Prince. You have to travel to Port Au Prince to get any sort of official papers.
So a very small portion of the Haitians have the needed papers to even begin the process to get legal here in the DR.
After a landmark international court decision in 2005 calling on the Dominican government to end its discrimination against this population, the government did the opposite: it hardened its policies and began retroactively withdrawing citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent who were previously recognized as citizens.
So the problems of one.. ARE the problems of another,
And, the DR, being the more advanced of the two countries does have the responsibility, I think, to take the lead in this one and see to it that there is not a CONTINUING STREAM of STATELESS children.
Wrong again! Haiti needs to amend its constitution to provide those Haitians born abroad with Haitian citizenship. The DR provide citizenship to very children that have a least a Dominican parent, no matter where they were born.
So I think that an annual publication of the Libra Rosada.. the delivery of all the names to the local Haitian Consul (the one in Dajabon had NEVER seen a copy of one) ,,, and PRESSURE from the DR government on the GOVERNMENT of HAITI to register these children as HAITIAN... to give them birth certificates. SO that at LEAST they can go to school as foreigners and later get passports.
No country on earth does that as far as I'm concerned! When a child of a foreign national is born in the DR they received the Pink Birth Certificate, and is up to the child parent or parents to registered that child with their countries embassy.
Then at the end of the year, the DR can ASK for the cost to be repaid or at least officially take credit for it
Who is going to pay the DR? Santa Claus! The DR doesn't have to take credit for anything, the big rich governments know what's going on, and they are looking the other way.
instead of what is now happening which is just a waste .. a waste of people's lives
The DR is already providing Pink Birth Certificate, if Haitians are throwing it to the trash can that's not the DR problem.
of the lives of children who had nothing whatsoever to do with the geopolitical situation.
That's what people of rich countries always like to say because is not their countries footing the burden!
Haiti[s cpnstitution provides for citizenship of all children of parents who were born in Haiti. Just as the DR's does
Most countries in the world are not facing the very peculiar problem that your country is facing.
If I were Dominican, I would be looking for ways to get out of the problem instead of simply repeating that it is Haiti's problem,
And yes, the bill for the births could be submitted to the Haitian government's ministry of health for inclusion in their budget Or it could start a campaign to build birthing centers on the HAITIAN side of the border.
But I have not seen ONE single proposal in six years.
Just complaints.
At the very least the DR could indeed do something positive rather than simply stirring the pot....