Will the government make this list available for the public to know who they are ..... like when foreigners apply to get citizenship or name change????????????

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I hope that ALL of these applicants are between 18 and 19, since that is the only opportunity to legally apply. Like a Haitian-Bahamian said in another thread: Freedom of Information, now (or something to that effect).

If your mother was an unmarried illegal immigrant then ...................sorry. Our Constitution does not provide for you to gain Bahamian status

Is she Bahamian or a Bahamian born Haitian?

If she is Bahamian, then you are entitled to automatic citizenship (source: DOI website); so the application process seems to be just a formality.

If she is a Bahamian born Haitian that never received Bahamian citizenship...you should have applied at 18 and before 19. If you applied in December, when you paid the belongers fee, you should legally be out of luck. The fact that you were born in Haiti means that you are not among those, 2nd gen Bahamas born, who might be considered stateless.

Just as Haitians are using the constitution against us...I feel like we should use the constitution to fight back against a population surge that we cannot realistically support without going the path of our Caribbean neighbours, including Haiti.

I sympathize for those of you who innocently get caught up. But as long as others in the same category continue to uphold and support illegal immigration, I am all for deporting whomever can be legally deported whether or not they ever saw a Haitian sunrise.

Please let us know how it works out for you. This government needs to be held to task for skirting laws they should be upholding. Maybe once we have that figured out, our economy might be one that has a surplus of jobs, and can realistically encourage immigration.

What? While the Bahamas constitution regarding citzenship is comprised of a complex matrix of what if scenarios, nowhere in the constitution does it state that a child born overseas up to age two is entitled to apply between the ages of 18 and 19. If your mother was a single Bahamian woman by natural citizenship or naturalization, then yes, you are entitled to apply for citizenship regardless of when or if you actually resided in the Bahamas. Yet, you are no different from the others who were born here to two illegal immigrant parents.

Judes, if your mother is a citizen there should be no problem; and best of luck to you.

But I don't understand the additional comments you made. As a Bahamian, born in the Bahamas, multiple generations in, I had to register, etc. in order to get a birth certificate, passport and NIB card. I don't understand why as a Christian woman, she is exempted. I know the constitution makes no provisions for that. Please explain this condition and the 2 years and under provisions in our fly-by-night constitution.