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Originally Posted by PICHARDO
Let me know when the US and UK started to allow non-immigrants to cross the borders from Mexico to get free child birth at US hospitals and then return to their country without having to get a Visa of any kind:_____________________________________________ _____
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I have no idea at all about US law. All I do know is that several Dominican friends of mine with US tourist visas go to the United States when she is pregnant so that the baby can be born there and be a US citizen. I assume they have to pay for the birth, so it tends to be richer Dominicans, but a US passport for life is worth a lot of money I would have thought.
I also know several Dominicans without cedulas which they cannot get as they do not have birth certificates. In most cases their parents sold their birth certificates to illegal Haitians. No cedula means no proper job, and it appears to be almost impossible to rectify. Not nice to be stateless all of your life.
I just think it is interesting that in order to have a Dominican birth certificate and hence citizenship you have to be here legally but maybe not in the USA or UK. And I would have thought that citizenship of those countries is worth a tad more than Dominican citizenship.
Matilda