Pierrot Délienne, the Foreign Minister announced that some 140,000 Haitians living in the Dominican Republic, registered in the National Plan for Regularization of Foreigners (PNRE), who need among other things, a mandatory passport to be able to renew their temporary migrant regularization card will have their paper by the end of the year ! He explains that all Haitian authorities are involved in the effort to provide the necessary documents. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17947-haiti-flash-140-000-haitians-facing-deportation-because-of-the-inaction-of-haiti.html

Who will believe that Haiti will be able to produce 140,000 passports in four months, as the country arrives just meet domestic demand while having recently doubled its production capacity https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-17919-icihaiti-politic-the-passport-application-increased-200-over-one-year.html and that in two years, the services concerned have issued less than 3,000 passports to Haitians living in the DR... https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17989-haiti-dominican-republic-the-haitian-government-says-anything.html

In addition, the National Archives of Haiti, stated publicly in late July, will not be able to respond to requests for extracts from the archives and birth certificates of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic until 2017 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18188-haiti-social-the-anh-unable-to-meet-the-demands-of-haitians-living-in-the-dr.html

Finally, the Chancellor promises a good management of this file, a refrain already known and ensures that the DGI will grant exemption from passport fees for Haitians enrolled in PNRE, while more than 80,000 Haitians have already paid the fees charged without ever receiving documents...

Again and again of words that do not reflect the reality of our compatriots who live in fear in neighboring land, between a hoped-regulation and fear of deportation...

See also :

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-18146-icihaiti-social-delay-for-haitian-passport.html

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

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17989-haiti-dominican-republic-the-haitian-government-says-anything.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-17947-haiti-flash-140-000-haitians-facing-deportation-because-of-the-inaction-of-haiti.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14613-haiti-diplomacy-daniel-supplice-does-not-fear-to-tell-the-truth.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-14612-icihaiti-diplomacy-the-ambassador-of-haiti-in-dr-suspended.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14432-haiti-politic-failure-of-pidih-a-fiasco-of-$2-million.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-14080-icihaiti-social-tens-of-thousands-of-haitians-in-dr-abandoned-by-haiti.html

SL/ HaitiLibre