President Danilo Medina visited Rome last week for a private audience with Pope Francis on Friday, 13 June. President Medina said that he and the Pope shared many points of view. He commented that he took time to explain the Naturalization Law to the Pope. He said that the Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13 was not a decision by the administration, but by the court. He said his government accepted that in some situations Dominican institutions, not the individuals concerned, were to blame, because they had not acted according to the law when granting citizenship. He acknowledged that these people have lived and are registered as Dominicans. The law orders special consideration to be given to regularize the status of people who already have Dominican documents and who qualify.
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