The Program of Identification and Documentation of Haitian Immigrants (PIDIH) will hand over on next Monday, 17 August 2015, 1,039 birth certificates to sugar cane workers who requested the essential documents to complete their application for legal residence under the National Foreigner Legalization Plan of the Dominican Republic.
According to the assistant coordinator of the PIDIH, Miousemme Celestin, they only have 1,351 cane workers registered in their program and not the 4,000 that Jesus Nunez, spokesman for the Union of Cane Workers, says have registered.
Celestin alleged that possibly the other workers have been to PIDIH offices on their own, and did not identify themselves as sugar cane workers.
The handing over of the documentation was supposed to happen today at the Haitian Embassy but it was postponed as Nunez could not be present.
She said that the PIDIH offices have around 15,000 documents ready to hand over to Haitian citizens who have yet to pick these up.
The failure of the Haitian government to document its citizens is one of the reasons why more Haitians have not been able to complete the procedures for residency under National Foreigner Legalization Plan of the Dominican government that expired on 17 June 2015.
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