Nationality Certificate To Rafael Medina Rushed In 1 Day By Immigration Director

Tonight, there is no official explanation or comment from the Immigration Ministry on the Rafael Vasquez Medina nationality facilitation. Salvadoran national Vasquez-Medina received his Belizean nationality certificate on September nineteenth, 2013, signed by Director of Immigration Maria Marin. There are credible reports that the certificate was processed, signed and delivered in one day. But that certificate was issued without proper vetting, since the person submitted as Vasquez-Medina’s Belizean mother is not his mother at all.  According to sources, the family of Vasquez-Medina was approached by an unidentified middle-aged woman who offered to facilitate his nationality, for the sum of five hundred dollars. The woman was given the money and a copy of Vasquez-Medina’s Salvadoran birth certificate, and returned one week later with his Belizean documents. He received what is called nationality by descent, since the broker procured fake documents claiming that his mother was one Roberta Medina, living in Guinea Grass.  Today, News Five travelled to the village of Guinea Grass to find Roberta Medina. Nobody we spoke to the in the village knew anybody by that name. The very organized scheme was only discovered when Vasquez-Medina took his new certificate to the Social Security Board to get his card. He had been given one previously on the strength of his work permit, and a clerk noticed that the mother’s name on that card, and the one on the nationality certificate were different. The Police were called in and Vasquez-Medina was arrested. We are told that the file is on the desk of Director of Immigration, Maria Marin, as part of the investigation. Marin, ironically, is the person who signed Vasquez-Medina’s nationality certificate. There is no explanation of what we have been told is a very irregular processing of a nationality certificate in one day, without the standard vetting which would have turned up the fact that Belizean Roberta Medina is not the mother of Rafael Vasquez-Medina. Today Director Marin did not answer our calls or texts, and neither did Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse. We’ll keep following this story to see what develops.