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1.
Document from the Mayor (if the child was born in a rural area), or certification
from the clinic or hospital where the child was born.
2. Certification from the church or parish on whether the child was baptized or not.
3. School certification, if the child is in school.
4. Certification from all the Registry Offices in the place where the child was born.
5. Copies of the parents’ identity cards; if the parents are deceased, copies of the
death certificates.
6. If the parents are married, copy of the marriage certificate.
7. Sworn statement (Form OC-25) signed by three witnesses over 50 years of age who
have an identity card (the new identity card), and who know how to sign their
names.
8. Copies of the witnesses’ identity cards.
9. Letter addressed to the President of the Central Electoral Board requesting late
declaration of birth.
10. Letter addressed to the President of the Central Electoral Board requesting
certification of whether or not the child has an identity document; if the applicant is
over 20 years of age, he/she also requires a certification from the Edificio El
Huacalito: National District […] of whether or not he/she has an identity document.
11. Two (2) photographs […].
109(19) On September 11, 1997, MUDHA and the Comité Dominicano de Derechos
Humanos (CDH), through its lawyers, Genaro Rincón Miesse and Marcelino de la Cruz
Nuñez, filed a “petition requesting authorization for late declarations,” before the
Public Prosecutor of the court of first instance of the Judicial District of the Province
of Monte Plata, in favor of a specific group of children, including the children Dilcia
Yean and Violeta Bosico.58
109(20) On July 20, 1998, the Public Prosecutor of the Judicial District of Monte
Plata, Julio César Castro Castro, decided “to refuse [...] the request for late
declaration of birth, because it was not accompanied by the appropriate
documentation and procedure, [and] to refer the parties concerned to the Civil
Status Registrar of Sabana Grande de Boyá, so that the application could be made in
letter issued on September 20, 1999, by the Civil Status Registrar, Thelma Bienvenida Reyes, to the Head
of the Inspectorate, Luis Felipe Gomez, attached to the State’s letter to the Inter-American Commission of
September 30, 1999 (file of attachments to the application attachment 14, tome II, folio 1417, and file of
attachments to the brief with requests and arguments, attachment 13, folio 88), and list of “requirements
for late declaration of births��� issued by the Central Electoral Board of the Dominican Republic, attached to
the State’s letter to the Inter-American Commission of September 30, 1999 (file of attachments to the
application attachment 14, tome II, folio 1418, and file of attachments to the brief with requests and
arguments, attachment 13, folio 89).
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Cf. “submission of formal request for authorization for late declarations,” filed by the Movimiento
de Mujeres Domínico-Haitianas (MUDHA) and the Comité Dominicano de Derechos Humanos (CDH), filed
before the Public Prosecutor of the court of first instance of the Judicial District of the Province of Monte
Plata, on September 11, 1997 (file of attachments to the application, attachment 3, folios 90 to 93);
identity card of Tiramen Bosico Cofi issued by the Central Electoral Board, the Dominican Republic (file of
attachments to the application, attachment 3, folio 95); identity card, number 090-0002085-0, of
Leonidas Oliven Yean issued on January 29, 1994, by the Central Electoral Board, the Dominican Republic
(file of attachments to the application, attachment 3, folios 102 and 103); birth certificate of Violeta
Bosico Cofi issued on March 3, 1997, by the auxiliary Mayor of Batey Las Charcas, Office of the Auxiliary
Mayor, Section Juan Sánchez, Sabana Grande de Boyá (file of attachments to the application, attachment
3, folio 94), and document with official report of the birth of the child Dilcia Yean issued on March 5, 1997,
by the Secretariat of State for Public Health and Social Assistance, the Dominican Republic (file of
attachments to the application, attachment 3, folio 98 and file of attachments to the brief with requests
and arguments, attachment 7, folio 48, and file of attachments to the answer to the application,
attachment 19, folio 45).
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