Facilitating Dual Nationality, Preventing Statelessness, and Promoting Inclusion for Foreign-Born Children and their Families in the State of Tlaxcala

The State of Tlaxcala commits to ensure effective access to the right to identify for individuals born abroad through the elimination of the requirement to present an apostilled foreign birth certificate in order to obtain dual nationality.

With this policy, the State offers a structural solution that allows effective access to the right to identity for individuals born abroad, which in turn secures access to other fundamental rights such as health, education, work, and housing. It guarantees protection of foreign-born children and also provides an opportunity for returning and deported families to integrate into their communities.

This action represents an effective implementation of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (Article 30) which directly grants Mexican nationality to individuals born abroad whose parents were born in Mexican territory or acquired it through naturalization. However, federal entities often impose requirements through their secondary regulations that exceed those required by the Constitution.

This policy now reaffirms the constitutionality of the actions of local governments in civil registry matters and upholds the rights outlined in the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Tlaxcala and the Law of the Rights of Girls, Boys, and Adolescents of the State.

https://www.regcivil.tlaxcala.gob.mx

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