Juliana Deguis Pierre received her birth certificate at the Central Electoral Board (JCE) yesterday, Monday 16 June, as reported in Listin Diario. The daughter of undocumented Haitian immigrants, she was born in the Dominican Republic. Deguis is in the spotlight after being used as a test case for people who did not lawfully qualify for automatic citizenship at birth as explained in detail in Constitutional Court ruling 168-13. To qualify, the applicant needs to have been born to foreigners with legal status in the country. But Naturalization Law 169-14 ordered that there be that will be allowed to keep the documentation as Dominican nationals, despite not qualifying according to the Constitutional Court ruling 168-13.
While she received a copy of the birth certificate that is in the Dominican civil registry system, the JCE did not authorize the issuing of her cedula (ID/Voter card) saying that this was a separate process because she was the daughter of undocumented foreigners.
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