110 | Report on the Situation of Human Rights in the Dominican Republic were out of plastic, excuses, so many excuses. So much time went by and with so many excuses, I stopped going. However, when I finished high school and was about to enroll in the university, I went back again to get the identity card. It was then that they told me they couldn’t give me the card because my mother is a Haitian national. 259 257. Using the information compiled during the visit, the following graph illustrates the most common problems that the affected persons encounter when trying to get Dominican identification records like a birth certificate, identity card or passport to prove their Dominican nationality. 259 One woman’s testimony to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Santo Domingo, December 2, 2013. Organization of American States | OAS