Tuesday, Jose Ramon Fadul, the Minister of the Interior and of the Dominican police, recalled that from 17 July starts to expire the 1-year temporary permit, granted to 143,000 foreigners (mostly Haitian) who are registered at the National Regularization Plan for Foreigners (PNRE) without a passport (mandatory document whose temporary absence has been accepted as derogation).

Haitians registered to PNRE , worried and angry, protested Tuesday outside the Embassy of Haiti in Santo Domingo, demanding their documents. These Haitians complain that two years after the start of the Program for Identification and Documentation of Haitian Immigrants (PIDIH) launched in July 2014, about 98,000 applications were filed and have not received any response despite the Haitian Government promises, constantly renewed... These thousands of Haitian paid the thousand pesos claimed by Haiti to obtain their documents and to complete and renew the migratory regularization process.

Haitian Protesters delivered a document to the diplomatic mission to the Haitian Embassy in which they claim to have strong evidence of the deposit of the thousands of applications remained unresolved.

The Minister Fadul informed that currently the Immigration Directorate General was working on a proposal to determine the mechanism that could be used with foreigners whose residence permit expires in the Dominican Republic from this month (near 143,000 between July 17 and December 2016). This proposal must be approved by the Ministry of Interior and the police and it is the President Danilo Medina that will have the last word "Next week, we will give information to the cards that expire and what mechanisms we use. The Director of Immigration will make a comprehensive proposal in this regard."

Recall that to renew their temporary permit https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17722-haiti-flash-130-000-haitians-in-dr-are-approaching-the-end-of-their-regularization.html Haitian armed with their regularization card, should submit all documents missing in their case (including passports), provide a certificate of no criminal record, undergo a medical examination and make a payment of 14,000 pesos as cost of their temporary stay. According to the status of their cases, the permit will be renewed or this will be the way of the deportation to Haiti.

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17722-haiti-flash-130-000-haitians-in-dr-are-approaching-the-end-of-their-regularization.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14887-haiti-politic-the-embassy-of-haiti-in-dr-finally-delivered-identification-documents.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14832-haiti-politic-haiti-has-managed-to-identify-only-1-351-caneros-in-dr.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14662-haiti-social-demonstration-of-caneros-front-the-embassy-of-haiti-in-dr.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14523-haiti-social-angry-cane-cutters-asking-4-6-million-gourdes-to-haiti.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-14448-icihaiti-dominican-republic-already-734-haitians-have-obtained-their-permanent-residence.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14179-haiti-social-the-dominican-authorities-are-assisting-cane-cutters.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14074-haiti-social-sugarcane-cutters-angry-against-haiti.html

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