Exclusion from the Civil Registry: Children of Mixed Couples

Exclusion from the Civil Registry: Children of Mixed Couples

Children of mixed couples, for example with a Dominican father and a foreign mother, are treated as foreigners with no access to the civil registry despite having the constitutional right to Dominican nationality through their father (jus sanguinis). In this video, the testimony of a mixed couple with three unregistered children illustrates the difficulties in making their right to Dominican nationality effective.