Sentence examples for regularization documents from inspiring English sources
Over all, scarcely more than three hundred "regularization documents" have been issued by the Interior Ministry to applicants hopeful of receiving a cédula, the I.D. document essential for enjoying the rights of Dominican citizenship.
This week saw the final deadline for the Dominican government's "regularization plan" for residents of the country without documents – most of whom are Haitian or Dominicans of Haitian descent.
Near the Haitian embassy, which had also proven inefficient at issuing the documents necessary for Haitians to comply with the regularization plan, I met Jhonny Jean, a construction worker originally from the north Haitian town of Gonaïves.
"Regularization does not mean rewarding those who break the law.
"I didn't even know what a regularization was".
Medina, the creator of the regularization plan, considers it a success.
By Joshua June 27chapiro June 20152015 Haitians in Santo Domingo wait to register in the "national regularization plan for foreigners".
Of those, less than 9,000 have been able to register under the regularization program, according to Human Rights Watch.
Regularization means that we give legal rights to people who are already contributing to this great nation".
"It produces in the imagination of the immigrant the possibility that there might be a regularization," he said.
