Michel Martelly visited the offices of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. yesterday, Wednesday 25 June 2014, and was received by secretary general Jose Miguel Insulza. One item on their agenda was the election process in Haiti and another was the plan of action to support Haiti’s plan to provide identification documents to Haitians who are living illegally in the Dominican Republic. The OAS leader gave President Martelly an action plan to support the Government of Haiti in providing identification for Haitians residing in the Dominican Republic without documentation. The action plan was prepared at the request of President Danilo Medina and the Prime Minister of Haiti, Laurent Lamothe. The “Diagnostic for the Identification of Haitian Migrants Residing in the Dominican Republic,” drafted by the OAS Universal Civil Identity Program in the Americas (PUICA), proposes concrete steps to provide birth certificates and National Identification Cards to an estimated 200,000 undocumented Haitian migrants living and working in the Dominican Republic. The project, which is expected to last for a year and a half, will include 23 offices and a mobile unit to reach remote communities. Providing legal documentation to Haitian migrants represents the first step in the regularization of their residency status in the Dominican Republic.
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http://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-273/14