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Originally Posted by Matilda
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
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Just as many foreigners now make their home in the DR, via legal means, out of the love for this new place they found to be worth more to them than what was left back at the point of origin. Worth is in the heart of those that seek to feel valued somewhere, somehow. That Dominicans worth their citizenship more than the US or the UK is not the issue, but that the non-Dominicans do is.
Like I said, given the fact that the DR allows a huge amount of people from Haiti to seek pre/birth/post care is the #1 reason it can't just provide citizenship to those that make their trek to the country via any which way they avail themselves of.
I can clearly recall the kind of poverty that existed in the DR 20 years back, and believe you me; it wasn't the kind we see today! We have gotten the poorest of the poor from Haiti and somehow still able to continue to offer a relief valve to a Famine of monumental dimensions next door.
Even when the children may be 4th generation Haitian born to 3rd generation still non-Dominican Haitian parents, the law is there to provide order where none exists...
