Repeat question: which law requires so-called registration at 18? Specify and enlighten. We need this type of information. Provide a link if possible. But, as far as my "dense" self knows, birth registration - which is still provided by our government to all children born in Bahamaland regardless of parental nationality - is how we "confirm" who is entitled, and who is not, to apply for Bahamian citizenship through birth here. So before you debase people with charges of "denseness", provide us with the specific laws and regulations of which you speak. Then we can have an informed discussion.

rawbahamian, please clarify: what law requires the children born to non-citizens to register? Register for what and where? You make it sound as if he should have "taken steps" to "facilitate his residency," but you are not careful with your terms. Children born in Bahamaland have the right to apply for Bahamian citizenship at majority. Doesn't mean they will get it. Tell us where the *written* law says they *must* "register" (and, again, for what?) or else face deportation.