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

Mexico

Dec 31

State of Tlaxcala, Mexico

Governor
**Lorena Cuellar Cisneros**
Start of Project
**07/01/2023**
End of Project
**Open-ended**

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Overview

Tlaxcala’s pledge, “Facilitating Dual Nationality, Preventing Statelessness, and Promoting Inclusion for Foreign-Born Children and their Families” (2023–ongoing), is a state policy that eliminates the requirement for an apostilled foreign birth certificate, enabling children born abroad to Mexican parents to access Mexican nationality and identity documents.
Implemented by the State Civil Registry in partnership with the Centro de Atención a la Familia Migrante Indígena (CAFAMI), the action benefits migrant and returning/deported families, ensuring children can exercise their rights to education, health, work, and full civic inclusion.

Reported Impact [as of November 2025]

Key results include monthly information and documentation clinics, interagency coordination between the Civil Registry and the Education Secretariat, and early evidence that children and youth are successfully obtaining nationality documents and advancing their integration. The main challenges include low awareness of the programme among returning families and limited institutional familiarity with the new legal procedures, requiring expanded outreach and ongoing training for frontline authorities.