Can you give us a hint what country your native passport is from?
Your situation is totally different from The OP's, you have another passport.
Gringo Starr;1647907 Actually OP was asking about visa for Dominican [B said:resident[/B], so that can be even a person with another country passport and the residence here, right?
My native country is even worse for US visa than DR, they can give me 3 years maximum in my passport. In Dominican passport they gave me 10 years visa.
Actually OP was asking about visa for Dominican resident, so that can be even a person with another country passport and the residence here, right?
That is a point that needs to be clarified. If the person is a DR resident and not a DR citizen, then their actual home country comes into play regarding the qualifications for visitor?s visas.
Well, in my case I have two passports, I need visa for any of them to enter US, so I got it in my Dominican passport with no problem at all.
Very curious what country your other passport is for.
Well, I am not from US, so I need US visa to enter US. Instead of going to US Consulate with my home country passport, I went there with my Dominican passport. They asked me if I have another citizenship, I said yes. They asked me why I want to have my US visa in my Dominican passport, I said why not? I live here, so it's logical. They gave me US visa for 10 years in my Dominican Passport, no problem at all. I do not have any job here, I am not retired (too young for that), I don't have any strong ties to DR really, I just live here but I can leave any moment if I want.. No Dominican wife, no children. I had my apartment title and car matricula with me, but they did not ask me to show it. The statement from Banco Popular was about less than 10,000 dollars in my account since I use Dominican bank account only for my expenses here, I transfer 10,000 here and after I spend them I transfer another 10,000 and so on...
P.S. that was about 6 years ago
It's pretty obvious Igor is not making this public information.
Well if he doesn't reply soon I'll edit this thread since his chatter doesn't help anyone.
Steady job, bank account, family, house, car all in the DR.
If the applicant has significant ties to the D.R. and a huge bank balance and owns a hotel chain. Easy.
If a regular Dominican, impossible nearly.
I applied for US visa as a Dominican citizen. And this is what this thread is about. The passport submitted to the Embassy was Dominican.
I did not show any real estate or car titles, I did not have any job in DR, I did not have a lot of money on my Dominican bank account, I did not show any strong ties with DR. I spoke English during the interview, they did not ask me if I speak Spanish. My another passport is from the country that also require visa to US, so that passport did not help at all. They asked me if I still have it, I said yes. But I even did not have it with me at the Embassy.
By the way, I know a Dominican girl, she is a student at UASD, has no job, no money, no husband, no children, lives in 9 1/2 km on Autopista Duarte (a shlthole ghetto) and she's got US visitor visa with no problem and visited US three times with her friends.
So this
is totally wrong.
P.S. Visa to Canada is much more difficult.
No, it is not "totally" wrong. Once in a while people get a visitor's visa to the USA without having everything that was mentioned but THAT IS VERY RARE.
There is the official statistics of declined US visas percentage for every country. I don't know where to find it, but I know that it exists because I saw those numbers for some countries (not DR). But without seeing those numbers you can't say that it's almost impossible or very rare.
Well since this is about the DR that has been the experience of many on this board or those that have come and gone. We are not going to discuss what other countries are able to get a US or Canadian visitor visa.