The Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) is due to issue a sentence in the forthcoming days that will decide upon the procedure for foreign nationals to obtain Dominican citizenship, after interpreting the Constitution, international treaties and the Migration Law. According to a report in El Caribe, the high court must rule on two unconstitutionality cases against the Migration Law. The SCJ decided to rule on the cases after the Central Electoral Board (JCE) determined that priests Pedro Ruquoy and Vigny Bellerive had declared Haitians as Dominican citizens in the civil registries of Mao, Valverde and the southern region of the country. Central to the issue are the legal precepts of “jus solis” and “jus sanguini”, which establish the determination of nationality based on place of birth (the former) or the nationality of parents (the latter).