AMERICA/HAITI - Haiti will ask for an extension to the Dominican Republic to regulate the "sans papiers"

Thursday, 16 October 2014

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Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Haiti, Pierre Duly Brutus, said yesterday in Santo Domingo that his country will ask the Dominican Republic to extend the deadline fixed by the latter so that the children of foreigners born before 2007 are able to enter the national Plan for the regularization of migration.
The Haitian official, says the note sent to Fides by a local source said that the request will be presented in the coming days, before October 28, when the expiry date provided by the National Plan for the regularization of foreigners expires, within which citizens born in the Dominican Republic before April 18, 2007, may register in the "Book of foreigners".
Until last September, the Dominican government received more than 54,000 requests for foreigners seeking to regularize their immigration status. The "Plan Nacional de Regularización de Extranjeros" (see Fides 01/07/2014), began on June 2 and will end May 31, 2015.
According to Fides sources, it is expected that thousands of Haitians will not be able to be part of the "Plan" only for bureaucratic reasons, such as lack of necessary documents. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 16/10/2014)