That is what I am saying. The regular snowbirds will not want to jump through all the hoops to get Residency and will probably take their dollars elsewhere if this continues, to the detriment of the DR and all the communities (including Las Terrenas) where they go every year.
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That is what I am saying. The regular snowbirds will not want to jump through all the hoops to get Residency and will probably take their dollars elsewhere if this continues, to the detriment of the DR and all the communities (including Las Terrenas) where they go every year.
People have gone to the Migracion office and tried to extend. They were told to pay the exit fee when the left.
I repeat that I know of no one, regardless of what DR government web sites say, that has extended their tourist card beyond 30 days. Some have actually wasted the time to go to Santo Domingo and were unable to do so.
Well If i go with a copy with the information from the webpage that is posible to do it, they have to do it, I go and ask I need a form to fill an aplication to extend my stay simple like that, I go will all papers they ask for, and the only thing they most do is pay the money at the cashier. Just because one lazy worker at inmigration office told that doesnt mean that must be the same for every body. If you note in the list I gave they also ask for a travel insurance. So the process exits and if some turist go to ask for it they must give the service.
If was not necesary why put the ifnormation on the webpage? If they going to ask pretending they dont know is posible maybe they get that answer, but if you go telling I need the form to do this, for sure they will do it.
I just wrote an email to inmigration information department asking about it. Lets see if they answer.
People have gone and asked for an extension and they were told to go away and pay the exit fee.
It will be interesting to see if DGM responds.
Ok getting a little tired of this so here it is. You need to believe me cuz I'm Canadian eh?
Our mod AlterEgo did this and here is the quote
This morning we went to immigration in La Feria. Went to the window and told the woman I needed to extend my tourist card. She nodded and handed me a paper and said pay when you leave. It's below, just the overstay fines. I told her I wanted to pay in advance. She said that doesn't exist.
I told her it's on their website, and she repeated it doesn't exist. She asked me how long I've been here, and I said about 40 days, and that I'm leaving April 29th. She put on a horrified face and told me, "if you are stopped, you will be deported".
So, how is YOUR day going??
Here is the thread please check it out http://dr1.com/forums/showthread.php/160845-Extending-Renewing-Tourist-Card?highlight=Visa+extention
You are talking about one single person receiving that answer, we need mire people getting the same answer,
OMG, I guess you were not following the news or DR1 in the past year and I'm not going to go searching for the links where tourists were picking up off the in the streets of POP and Sosua, put in a big yellow bus and taken to immigration. Many were trying to get extentions and guess what they were sent home after hours of waiting.
I'm done. I don't care if you don't believe us. How many times do I need to go to SD and find a Dominican that isn't lazy as you put it that knows what the laws are and will do an extention so that I won't be illegal after 30 days? The place where I stay is 2 hours from SD. I usually stay around 60 days. I have written and called the Dominican embassy in Ottawa and they tell me the same thing, pay on the way out.
Here you go http://dominicanembassycanada.gob.do/index.php/es/preguntasfre-p#p3 tell me what it says.
How many times do you have to ask at the Canadian embassy what the requirements are to enter Canada?
I wanted to add that the woman I met with in immigration office (La Feria, SD), had a stack of letters printed out with the overstay fines. The couple ahead of me was given one too, and we talked outside afterwards.
I still have the paper, I keep it with my passport
I still have the paper, I keep it with my passport
I'm illegal, more than 6 years in the country and 5.5 years since my last exit/entry...
If I get caught, I'll pay the fine, I'm around 35,000 pesos now, and if they ship me back to Canada (Québec), fine, I had not seen my family since 2012... And I'll be back a couple of months later, with a 2 weeks vacation at a resort, and then, never make my flight back to Montreal... And by the way, when you're walking around in Cabarete or Puerto Plata, never was I asked for ID or even bothered by the police. Maybe I look honest and by the book... Who knows ???
If I get caught, I'll pay the fine, I'm around 35,000 pesos now, and if they ship me back to Canada (Québec), fine, I had not seen my family since 2012... And I'll be back a couple of months later, with a 2 weeks vacation at a resort, and then, never make my flight back to Montreal... And by the way, when you're walking around in Cabarete or Puerto Plata, never was I asked for ID or even bothered by the police. Maybe I look honest and by the book... Who knows ???
Im Dominican, thats why I didnt try and I dont live in Santo Domingo, would be funny for me to go there and ask.