20 94. Mr. Antonio Sensión was born in Savaneta de Cangrejo, the Dominican Republic, 61 62 December 24, 1958. His identification document bears the number 001-0592094-6. Mr. Antonio Sensión and his common law wife, Mrs. Ana Virginia Nolasco, born in Cahobas, Haiti, lived in the Dominican Republic for 16 years and had two daughters born in the Dominican Republic: Ana Lidia (born 63 64 August 3, 1990 ) and Reyita Antonia (born January 6, 1992 ). The Sensión family lived in Mata Mamón, San Luis, Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, until Mr. Sensión moved to Puerto Plata for workrelated reasons. 95. At Christmastime in 1994, Mrs. Ana Virginia Nolasco and her two daughters were changing buses in Sabana Perdida, to visit the family of Mr. Sensión in Villa Altagracia, the Dominican Republic, when Dominican immigration officers detained them. Mrs. Nolasco and her two daughters were put in a truck along with other families and spent two or three days in the truck bound for the Haitian border. Late in the afternoon they were dropped off in a strange town in Haiti, with no money or resources of any kind and knowing no one. Thanks to charity they managed to get money to travel to Las 65 Cahobas, where Mrs. Nolasco’s family lived. 96. When Mr. Sensión returned to Mata Mamon, he discovered that the following was missing from his home: 4 chairs, one table, two beds, one television, one radio, one stove, shoes and 66 clothing. 97. Mr. Sensión travelled several times to Haiti in search of his family. In May 1995 he went first to Las Cahobas, Haiti, but was unable to locate any of the members of Mrs. Nolasco’s family or to find any information on the whereabouts of his daughters and wife. In 1996, he contacted Dominican immigration officials to ask them about his family’s whereabouts, but they told him they did not have any information in that regard. In 1997, he went back to Haiti once more to search for his family. On that trip, he went to Otundino, Haiti, because he remembered that Mrs. Nolasco had mentioned it once. From May 28 to June 2, 2000, Mr. Sensión traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Because of these trips, Mr. Sensión 67 lost 33 days of work, amounting to RD$8,778 in lost wages. In 2002, Mr. Sensión found his family in a marketplace in Las Cahobas, Haiti, and returned to the Dominican Republic with his daughters. Mrs. 68 Nolasco managed to return one week later. 61 Annex 27. Judicial Service, Dominican Republic, Judgment No. 117, which orders the Civil Records Office in the Municipality of Sosua “to confirm the BIRTH certificate” of Mr. Antonio Sensión. Annex AX of the petitioners’ observations on the merits, April 16, 2009. 62 Annex 28. Photocopy of the identification document of Mr. Antonio Sensión. Annex AY of the petitioners’ observations on the merits, April 16, 2009. Attachment to the petitioners’ observations of January 30, 2002. 63 Annex 29. Baptismal Certificate of Ana Lidia Sensión of November 20, 1994. Attachment to the petitioners’ observations of January 30, 2002. 64 Annex 30. Baptismal Certificate of Reyita Antonia Sensión of November 20, 1994. Attachment to the petitioners’ observations of January 30, 2002. 65 Annex 31. Statement given by Antonio Sensión in the presence of the Human Rights Clinic of Columbia University School of Law on January 11, 2001. Attachment to the petitioners’ observations of January 30, 2002. Annex 32. Sworn statement given by Antonio Sensión on May 8, 2000, in which he states that “[a]t the end of nineteen hundred ninety-six (1996) his wife, Mrs. Ana Vigil, a Haitian citizen who was undocumented at the time, and his daughters Ana Lidia and Reyita Antonia, the first registered at the Fourth Civil Records Office of the D.N. and the other in Puerta Plata, and baptized by the Catholic Church, were deported and expelled from the Dominican Republic to Haiti.” Information supplied by MUDHA on May 18, 2000. 66 Annex 31. Statement given by Antonio Sensión in the presence of the Human Rights Clinic of Columbia University School of Law on January 11, 2001. Attachment to the petitioners’ observations of January 30, 2002. 67 Annex 31. Statement given by Antonio Sensión in the presence of the Human Rights Clinic of Columbia University School of Law on January 11, 2001. Attachment to the petitioners’ observations of January 30, 2002. 68 Annex 33. Sworn statement given by Antonio Sensión on March 27, 2007. Annex AU of the petitioners’ observations on the merits, April 16, 2009.