NewsWhore
07-30-2007, 04:30 PM
Both the Central Electoral Board and the Ministry of Public Health accept shared responsibility for the inconveniences caused by the failure to put the new Foreigners' Register into operation. There have been several cases of foreign mothers who gave birth in the Dominican Republic but were not able to register their children, resulting in their babies being denied passports by their countries of origin. Both Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman and Dr. Bautista Rojas Gomez answered reporters' questions about the non-functioning of the register. According to Castanos Guzman, the only thing missing in the process is for the Public Health ministry to issue the pink birth certificate for non-resident mothers. The babies can then be registered at the Civil Registry Office nearest to their homes.
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