Once you have been sworn in, you are then given a paper by the Ministry of Interior and Police which you can exchange for your Dominican birth certificate which then entitles you to your Dominican cedula and, should you want it, your Dominican passport. I am not quite at that stage but I have been contacted by someone who has told me of a minor hitch.
Dominican birth certificates have the parents' names (as do all birth certificates) but they also have their nationality and their cedula number. British and Canadian birth certs just have names - no nationalities and no ID card numbers. I have been told that they will not issue cedulas to new citizens if the birth certificate is incomplete.
So, if your birth certificate from your home country does not state the nationality nor national identification number of your parents then you need to take proof of that with you when your Dominican birth certificate is issued so that it can have all of the information on it. I would think that copies of passports will be sufficient. We will see.
Matilda
Dominican birth certificates have the parents' names (as do all birth certificates) but they also have their nationality and their cedula number. British and Canadian birth certs just have names - no nationalities and no ID card numbers. I have been told that they will not issue cedulas to new citizens if the birth certificate is incomplete.
So, if your birth certificate from your home country does not state the nationality nor national identification number of your parents then you need to take proof of that with you when your Dominican birth certificate is issued so that it can have all of the information on it. I would think that copies of passports will be sufficient. We will see.
Matilda