The Ambassador of Haiti to the Dominican Republic Idalbert Pierre Jean, welcomed the decision of the Dominican government to extend for one year the temporary migrant regularization card of early 143,000 of our compatriots, whose card was about to expire between 17 July 2016 and December. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18010-haiti-flash-danilo-medina-grants-one-year-more-to-140-000-haitians.html

He noted that this measure taken by the Dominican authorities took into account the difficulties posed to Haiti to help Haitian immigrants to complete the documents required by the National Plan for Regularization of Foreigners (PNRE) including a passport requirement.

The Ambassador of Haiti stated "[...] this is very good news [...] honestly, we're going to work, both the Government [of Haiti] and the Embassy for all immigrants Haitian included in this group of 143,000 foreigners, can complete their documentation."

Regarding the delay in the delivery of passports (for over 2 years...), the Ambassador explained that "the difficulty is that we do not produce the passport in Haiti, the production of booklets and forms we import them from outside," but assured that steps are taken to resolve this issue... The truth is that Haiti neglects its diaspora in neighboring Republic.

As Haiti struggling to meet the internal demand of passports of its citizens and it has just doubled its capacity https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-17919-icihaiti-politic-the-passport-application-increased-200-over-one-year.html , it is not clear how Haiti will be able to deliver more than 140,000 additional passports in the next 12 months... beyond the promises never kept...

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18010-haiti-flash-danilo-medina-grants-one-year-more-to-140-000-haitians.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-17919-icihaiti-politic-the-passport-application-increased-200-over-one-year.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11414-haiti-socialhaitian-authorities-have-no-excuses-dixit-edwin-paraison.html

SL/ HaitiLibre