Hi! I've been lurking on this forum for a while now, and really appreciate all the great advice that DR1ers take time to give. Now I have some questions of my own, but can't seem to find the answers in the archives.
I have been living and working in the DR since May this year, and my husband since March. We started the process for applying for provisional residency using a lawyer as soon as we arrived, but we still haven't received our cedulas. We haven't renewed our tourist cards. We are leaving the country to go to the States for a week over New Year, and are concerned about immigration when leaving/re-entering the country. Our lawyer has given us photocopies of the constancia for submitting the application, and the recibo de ingreso por concepto de residencia provisional for my husband, plus a letter stating that we have applied for residency, but he doesn't think that this is enough, and advised us to get further proof of application from Migracion. However the staff there were unable to help us and told us to come back when the section boss was there, but despite going back three times on different days, the boss was never there.
My main questions are:
1) Will we have to pay the fine on departure for overstaying the tourist card?
2) Will American Airlines allow us on our return flight since we don't have another ticket back out of the DR, and we don't yet have our cedulas?
3) Will we have to buy another tourist card when we come back to the DR, or will Immigration accept our proof of application for a cedula?
4) Will leaving the country affect our application for a cedula? My husband's embassy advised him that leaving the country before receiving the cedula may mean that the whole process has to start from the beginning again, although I find that hard to believe.
If any of you have any experience of this, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks a lot!
I've posted this in the Travel Forum too.
I have been living and working in the DR since May this year, and my husband since March. We started the process for applying for provisional residency using a lawyer as soon as we arrived, but we still haven't received our cedulas. We haven't renewed our tourist cards. We are leaving the country to go to the States for a week over New Year, and are concerned about immigration when leaving/re-entering the country. Our lawyer has given us photocopies of the constancia for submitting the application, and the recibo de ingreso por concepto de residencia provisional for my husband, plus a letter stating that we have applied for residency, but he doesn't think that this is enough, and advised us to get further proof of application from Migracion. However the staff there were unable to help us and told us to come back when the section boss was there, but despite going back three times on different days, the boss was never there.
My main questions are:
1) Will we have to pay the fine on departure for overstaying the tourist card?
2) Will American Airlines allow us on our return flight since we don't have another ticket back out of the DR, and we don't yet have our cedulas?
3) Will we have to buy another tourist card when we come back to the DR, or will Immigration accept our proof of application for a cedula?
4) Will leaving the country affect our application for a cedula? My husband's embassy advised him that leaving the country before receiving the cedula may mean that the whole process has to start from the beginning again, although I find that hard to believe.
If any of you have any experience of this, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks a lot!
I've posted this in the Travel Forum too.