The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has told the Ministry of Interior and Police that children of Dominicans who are born overseas are Dominicans and do not need to go through a naturalization process to acquire Dominican citizenship, as the Ministry has been erroneously requiring.
The Central Electoral Board (JCE), which is in charge of civil registry, says that the Ministry of Interior and Police has been applying the law in the wrong way. JCE president Roberto Rosario notified Minister Jose Ramon Fadul that children of Dominicans born abroad do not need to undergo a naturalization process, regardless of their having already acquired the nationality of their birthplace when it is different to that of their parents. He says this is established in Article 18 of the Constitution.
On 9 October 2015, Rosario sent Fadul Resolution No. 02/2015 dated 27 April 2015 issued by the JCE plenary, which establishes the procedure for the transcription of foreign birth certificates at JCE civil registry offices, consulates and consular sections abroad.
The procedures notified in the Resolution make it easier for Dominicans living abroad to pass on their nationality to their children.
The resolution establishes that: “The Civil Status Officer is instructed that once the authorization to transcribe the foreign birth certificate is received it should be immediately registered in both in the Automated Civil Registration System and in the corresponding Book of Registrations.”
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JCE advierte a MIP hijos dominicanos no pueden ser naturalizados