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Originally Posted by pwylie
My son had a baby over the weekend w/a DR woman he only visited DR a few times and she got pregnant she has 2 other children by other fathers. He found out on Friday that the baby was born and is heading there today to get DNA testing. He has spent alot of money for legal help and to help the girl have the best medical for the child. The child w born with breathing difficulties and still in the hospital. He wants to bring the child back to the states this week for proper care. What does he need to do and if he can bring son back without mother. Will he beable to keep his son and raise him on his own?
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If he took the initiative to provide his name at the Hospital the child born, as the father of the kid, then all he needs to do is take the BC to the US representative for these matters in the DR.
There he can have his kid declared as born overseas and file to have his US citizenship rights provided for him.
It takes little time to have this done, more so if a medical precondition exist where the life of the child is in danger due to lack of proper medical care/services in the host country at birth.
As you pointed out he already went for the DNA testing, but for citizenship declaration at the US in the DR, this step is not required if the child was born and properly declared by the father as his in the DR within the time it took to declare his birth to the US authorities there.
Since the mother is Dominican, the child is not provided with a BC that declares him within the book of extranjeria; therefore a regular Dominican BC is issued in his case.
After getting the clearance and documentation from the US authorities, he'll need the permission and consent from the mother in order to travel with the child, but in his case this is much simpler since both parents are in the DR and the child will be declared as a child born to an US citizen overseas.