NewsWhore
03-14-2011, 03:30 PM
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) will soon do something to bring relief to the thousands of citizens affected by errors in their digitalized birth certificates. The JCE has acknowledged responsibility for the thousands of birth certificates showing obvious errors that have caused major inconveniences to Dominicans. Most of the errors were caused in the digitalizing of the birth certificates several years ago. But when citizens requested corrections, even when presenting proof of other legal documents, the JCE said that lengthy court procedures were required for making the corrections, lasting months and costing upwards of RD$30,000 for each correction.
Finally, the JCE has come forth with a ruling to correct the errors. The ruling still needs to be approved by the JCE, but relief for the thousands affected by the errors is expected to start this month.
The new rule authorizes the National Department of Civil Registry of the JCE to correct the errors in the system.
The ruling establishes that the administrative corrections that do not require a lengthy and costly court hearing can be done in the case of change of letters in names or last names or in general numeration of the file, and when abbreviations are used or conjunctions.
As reported in Listin Diario, the decision comes due to the large number of birth certificates with evident errors that cannot be attributed to the holder of the birth certificate but rather to clerks in the civil registry.
The interested parties now need but to fill out a form and submit it to the civil registry or directly at the Department of Civil Registry at the JCE headquarters.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)
Finally, the JCE has come forth with a ruling to correct the errors. The ruling still needs to be approved by the JCE, but relief for the thousands affected by the errors is expected to start this month.
The new rule authorizes the National Department of Civil Registry of the JCE to correct the errors in the system.
The ruling establishes that the administrative corrections that do not require a lengthy and costly court hearing can be done in the case of change of letters in names or last names or in general numeration of the file, and when abbreviations are used or conjunctions.
As reported in Listin Diario, the decision comes due to the large number of birth certificates with evident errors that cannot be attributed to the holder of the birth certificate but rather to clerks in the civil registry.
The interested parties now need but to fill out a form and submit it to the civil registry or directly at the Department of Civil Registry at the JCE headquarters.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)