Cedulas and Regularizacion
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After seeing posts here regarding people being asked to go to PNRE office and collecting letters to go to Sto Dgo to collect cedulas without seeing any posts for results we went, in July to the POP PNRE Office, we were given letters and told that we would get cedulas and would then have to return to the PNRE office with them.
we then took the letters to the Police & Immigration office in Santo Domingo, they did something and gave us a paper to take to the JCE cedula office for exranjeros near to Plaza Bandera - we went in and presented our papers, after waiting for about an hour we were taken into an office for photograph and fingerprints then into a waiting room , from where they were issuing cedulas. Because of a misfiling or mis-registration of our marriage Certificate we did not actually get cedulas but a piece of paper with a number to phone in 1 month -( which we returned to the PNRE office with to ask what had happened) - several calls between August and December produced no results other than call again in a couple of weeks or a month
In January, after discussions with an immigration specialist lawyer we went again to
The JCE office and after a very short time left with our 1 year temporary cedulas - we were told that we had to go to Migracion office which we did, only to be informed that we had to return to the PNRE Office in POP. We did this and they filled in a form and took fingerprints again in this forme, we needed 2 colour copies of both sides of our cedulas ( nobody told us but we had done this before going as we like to have copies of everything in case of loss)
They then told us that thes forms were to be sent to StoDgo and that we would be contacted once our residency cards were ready for collection - maybe we will get before the renewal date(July) - maybe not, but we do have cedulas ! With no extra costs except for the use of a lawyer who knows everybody and gets things done quickly