In the past 30 days, high-ranking officials from the United States, the United Nations and the European Union have visited the country and made recommendations for the Dominican Republic to apply a humane solution to the plight of hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the Dominican Republic who do not have legal documentation, according to a report in El Nacional.
The first to visit was US Vice President Joe Biden, followed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and European Council president Herman Van Rompuy.
They have all made the same request: for the Dominican government to put aside its sovereignty and be compassionate for of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti who do not have legal documentation. The main reason for this situation is that the government of Haiti has been negligent about providing birth certificates or legal documentation to its own citizens, which has led to major problems when they have migrated to a country where legal identity is needed.
El Nacional points out how in a period of less than a month several special envoys have come to campaign for the Dominican Republic to naturalize these people at no cost and with just a neighborhood group or witnesses found to pledge they were born in the Dominican Republic. The Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13 states that only offspring born to foreigners with legal residency qualify for Dominican nationality. The Dominican government is offering a fast-track residency process, but in order to qualify the applicants need to have birth certificates and passports issued by the Haitian government.
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