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Originally Posted by oldschool
I'm an American and my ex-girlfriend was Canadian. Our daughter was born in the Dominican in 1997. Both of us were here illegialy at the time. She has an official Dominican Birth Certificate with all the stamps and signatures you could want on it but things might be different now.
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The JCE is reviewing all the BC and Cedulas issued on the past few years just because of that same problem. It was found that a disproportioned number of documents were issued without the legal and required investigation by the authorities during that time.
That's why many that today try to renew their Cedulas find themselves without the ease to do so. Now those Cedulas and BC that have been flagged must provide the documentation to satisfy the basic legal requirements to have it in the first place.
As far a you and your girlfriend being illegal at the time of the birth, it takes under consideration that during that time, no legal framework was in place to define to local authorities that a foreigner that entered the country via the no-visa requirement and was allowed to pay penalties at exit for the extra time over the allotted by such non-visa stay; represented an illegal status in the country.
After the DR gov took the issue and the new regulations constituted, then you and your girlfriend, even thus you were over extending your stay as non-visa foreigners in the DR; never felled under "illegals" in the legal status of your residence during the time.
Please remember that you entered the country via "legal channels" not crossing the border at night or after a pay off to some border guard.
As it stands, during your over extended stay in the DR and childbirth, you and your wife never became illegals in the DR due to the lax rules that allowed both to just pay the penalties due at exit...
Take as an example of the revamped rules of this issue the case of two parents that had their child born in the DR, they had to go the papers to get the authorities to provide the pink BC so they could get the US Embassy to provide the BC for the child.