National Foreigner Legalization Plan director Samir Santos has announced that the services now being offered by 14 offices across the country will be expanded to new offices and mobile units in areas with large populations of undocumented foreigners, as reported in Diario Libre. As of Friday, 19 June 2014, the offices had been visited by 54,020 foreigners seeking to legalize their status, and had registered 10,387. The nationwide plan began on 2 June. Foreigners can apply in the National District and at governor’s offices in 12 leading provinces. Press reports indicate that there are long lines, consisting mainly of Haitians who want to regularize their status. The free and expited process will continue until 15 May 2015. The main obstacle to the regularization is that thousands of foreigners have immigrated without birth certificates or passports issued by their native Haiti, and that these are costly are difficult to obtain through the Haitian authorities.
Diario Libre reports that the plan has the support of the Red de Encuentro Dominico-Haitiano Jacques Viau, Mesa Nacional para las Migraciones and the International Organization for Migration.
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