Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the September 23, 2013, decision of the Dominican Republic Constitutional Court that places hundreds of thousands of Dominican born persons at risk of statelessness.

it is the unequivocal policy of the United States to promote the right to nationality without arbitrary deprivation by any state as articulated in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights; and

the United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) in consultation with OAS member states, in particular governments of Caribbean nations, President of the Permanent Council, and the Inter-American Commission, should pursue a multilateral approach to promptly address the potential crisis in the Dominican Republic as a result of that nation’s Constitutional Court ruling on September 23, 2013, that could render hundreds of thousands of Dominican born persons stateless.