When to pay country exit fees

Crane

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I will be leaving the DR soon, and I was wondering how far in advance I can pay the country exit fees? I would like to at least pay them possibly the day before I leave, but if I can pay sooner than that it would be better. I will be leaving in three weeks. Any help would be appreciated.

Crane
 

Anastacio

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I dont think you can, as your passport needs to be checked and your fine worked out accordingly. I can't see how you can go to passport control, tell them you'll be back in a few weeks, then pay and go back on the arranged date, just a little confusing and pointless work fir everyone. And would involve trust on both parts.
 

Robert

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I will be leaving the DR soon, and I was wondering how far in advance I can pay the country exit fees? I would like to at least pay them possibly the day before I leave, but if I can pay sooner than that it would be better. I will be leaving in three weeks. Any help would be appreciated.

Crane

You pay them when you leave. It's a stupid simple process, costs are clearly shown.

1. Walk up, hand your passport to an immigration officer, they will check and tell you to go over to the office on the right and pay the required fine.
2. Look at the posted list of fees relating to days overstayed. Pay the required amount.
3. Go back to immigration booth. Show your payment and you're done.

Takes a few mins.
 

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Hi Crane,

We just spent over 2 months in DR. When we checked in at American Airlines they showed me a schedule of what I would owe for overstaying the 30 days [my husband is a dual US/Dominican citizen, he can stay as long as he wants]. When we got to immigration, where they collect the fee [was 800 pesos for me] the clerk simply stamped my passport and handed it back to me. Never asked for money, and I didn't offer ;)

Just go to the airport and don't offer :cheeky: If they ask you for money, you can pay in either pesos or dollars, both were listed on the sheet they showed me at check-in.

AE
 

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The OP may be talking about the "departure tax", not a fine for overstaying his tourist card. Most people are not aware of this tax as it is included in the tickets from many countries (Check your tax breakdown). Usually people with a cut-rate tour package have not had this included and must pay upon departure.
 

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The OP may be talking about the "departure tax", not a fine for overstaying his tourist card. Most people are not aware of this tax as it is included in the tickets from many countries (Check your tax breakdown). Usually people with a cut-rate tour package have not had this included and must pay upon departure.

Ah, OK. If that's the case, they'll ask for it when you check in.

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Hi Crane,

We just spent over 2 months in DR. When we checked in at American Airlines they showed me a schedule of what I would owe for overstaying the 30 days [my husband is a dual US/Dominican citizen, he can stay as long as he wants]. When we got to immigration, where they collect the fee [was 800 pesos for me] the clerk simply stamped my passport and handed it back to me. Never asked for money, and I didn't offer ;)

Just go to the airport and don't offer :cheeky: If they ask you for money, you can pay in either pesos or dollars, both were listed on the sheet they showed me at check-in.

AE


That is one way to approach it, but for me, I would rather be honest, tell the immigration officer that I need to pay for a couple of months, then go to the office and do it. It is not much money, and until I get my residency completed, I believe in dealing honestly with immigration officials.

Lindsey
 

granca

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You can apply to the office that deals with residency if your process has already started and get a letter confirming this, you will then pay no departure tax.
 
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You can apply to the office that deals with residency if your process has already started and get a letter confirming this, you will then pay no departure tax.

Are you talking about the $20 departure tax? Airport departure taxes are normally charged to everyone, tourists, citizens and residents alike.
 

rice&beans

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Really??

That is one way to approach it, but for me, I would rather be honest, tell the immigration officer that I need to pay for a couple of months, then go to the office and do it. It is not much money, and until I get my residency completed, I believe in dealing honestly with immigration officials.

Lindsey



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While I certainly believe honesty is normally the "best" policy, this was either a case of the clerk screwing up, OR doing it intentionally, as a nice gesture, seeing that AE was married to a Dominican. Either way, take the gift....(mistake) give a wink...;)....(or show NO reaction).....end of story!!

I highly doubt when getting your residency, that this is gonna somehow come back and bite you in the A-S.........

It's called, going with the flow........

:cheeky::cheeky::cheeky:
 
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bigbird

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Are you talking about the $20 departure tax? Airport departure taxes are normally charged to everyone, tourists, citizens and residents alike.

No, thats not correct. When if fly into the UK direct I pay, but I recently flew via Germany and didn't pay.
Expat is correct on this one. Everyone pays, sometimes you pay directly whereas other times it is included in your total ticket price. Although I think the OP is questioning the over stay fee and not the departure tax.
 
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I didn't know people thought they weren't paying a departure tax just because it's included in the ticket price. Whether the airline collects it from you or you pay it at the airport, everyone pays. AFAIK most countries have a departure tax and has nothing to do with nationality or where you're going (although some countries tax less for travel to neighboring countries).
 

Anastacio

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Well, I don't take routine into consideration in the Republic, everything can be random and does change regularly for most things. I must say I don't pay much attention to this kind of thing and just go with the flow of it, but I have different experiencess depending where I fly through, US, direct to UK or through Europe, and out off different airports form the Republic, I never know what is going on as it is never the same process. But for the sakes of a few $ I don't really think about it that much, just know I didn't pay flying into Germany last time.
 
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It is a simple process and quick as others stated.

I am not always charged when I leave. I have paid less than they asked before (i had no more cash on me) and paid nothing when traveling from STI and SDQ with my Dominican husband.
 

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It is about the tax paid if you stay longer than the tourist card permits ,,I stay here for 6 months sometimes .It is all very simple at SDQ las americas airport in the capital ..you go through the security people and on the right there is a large sign on the wall that sets out the fee you must pay ..They look at your passport to see when you arrived , they calculate the amount , you pay the amount and they give you a resceipt in dupliacte .Then you simply walk over to the immigration officers and show them your passport and your receipt and alll is ok and off you go It may cost you around 1000 pesos ,,dirt cheap for all the good times you have had here