Executive Summary | 15 16. 17. 18. 19. 2 in the Civil Registry. 2 This means that many of the people who would be part of Group B would not have been registered under the procedure provided for them under Law 169-14. The Commission recognizes that the Dominican government has taken action to address the situation of those affected by judgment TC/0168/13. While the Commission rejects the ground rules underlying Law 169-14, it recognizes the practical importance of the procedure for restoring the Dominican nationality to the children born in Dominican territory of non-resident foreign parents and who were registered in the books of the Civil Registry, i.e. those of Group A. However, the Commission cannot but express its rejection of the procedure that allows people born in the Dominican Republic and who under Dominican legislation were entitled to Dominican nationality, to be treated as foreigners and that the option given to them to retell their Dominican nationality is to apply for a naturalization process after a period of two years of having regularized their migratory status in accordance with the National Plan for the Regularization of foreigners in irregular migratory situation. Since the solution Law 169-14 provides for people in Group B is to consider them as foreign, tens of thousands of people and their descendants continue without having their nationality restored and hence without being effectively repaired for the arbitrary deprivation of nationality and statelessness in which they were left after judgment TC/0168/13. The Commission also expresses its deep concern about the risk of being deported from the Dominican Republic of persons born in the Dominican territory who lack identification documents certifying their Dominican nationality, contrary to the provisions of the American Convention and the standards developed by the InterAmerican Commission and the Court. Based on its detailed examination of the situation of Dominicans of Haitian descent with respect to their rights to nationality, identity, equality, non-discrimination and other rights and related problems, as the group most affected by judgment TC/0168/13, in this report the Commission will make a number of recommendations to the State in that regard. In that spirit, the Commission urges the State to adopt the necessary measures to prevent judgment TC/0168/13 from continuing to have legal effects; to fully restore the right to nationality of those affected by judgment TC/0168/13; to void of legal effects the provisions of Law 16914 that are based on considering as foreigners people who were born in the Dominican Republic children of irregular migrants, as this implicates a retroactive deprivation of nationality; and to take steps to stop the practices of denying Dominican nationality to persons born in the territory based on the origin of their parents or ancestor, the migratory status of their parents; among other recommendations made in this report. Among the various actions that the Dominican government has made to assist the Haitian State and Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, the Commission considers it relevant to emphasize the importance of the actions taken by the This number does not include the children of these people. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights | IACHR