- Thread starter Melisa Alcantara
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Dominican Immigration has extended the stay for tourist
Still just $100US (approx)
Not serious increases to most....
what can you expect - a reduction ???
Try speeding tix in Canada Anna... that's real money and maybe a license suspension with car impound and $10,000 fine
A recent addition to the roadway control
Not serious increases to most....
what can you expect - a reduction ???
Try speeding tix in Canada Anna... that's real money and maybe a license suspension with car impound and $10,000 fine
A recent addition to the roadway control
And how much does getting residency cost, especially if using a lawyer? It's annual renewals isn't it? I'll do it if/when I have to but until then I am glad to pay the increased overstay fees.
BTW - I just returned over the weekend. My passport and I assume their records in their system would indicate that I am a chronic overstay person and yet not a word was mentioned. I returned to STI and my son (also an overstay culprit) returned to SDQ, no problem.
I never had a speeding ticket in the years when I drove and what kind of comparision is that?
At today's exchange it's 144.78 Canadian but that would not stop me from going as long as they leave me the hell alone.
and that is the point - you'll continue...
The comparison was how/what govt's do with fees and fines...
Speeding as compared to overstay.... govt regulated fees / fines
I'll make it more clear for you next time
My apologies
The comparison was how/what govt's do with fees and fines...
Speeding as compared to overstay.... govt regulated fees / fines
I'll make it more clear for you next time
My apologies
In theory this should work. However, I usually have a year long visa when I travel to the DR. In spite of the visa, I was charged overstay fees on at least three separate occasions.
If I have a visa good for a year, and am departing 45 days after I entered the DR, why would I be charged the fee?
A visa is not the same as residency. Even with visa extensions the fines apply. At least you shouldn’t have to worry about deportation
I was told recently that there is a process to obtain an ID card at Migración which obviates the fines. Never knew that before and do not know how to obtain the card. That will be investigated, however.
My point to Riva was that just "getting a visa" is not the end of the process in the DR.
It is called the DR1 paranoid Visa. Worth nothing, but you must have it if you read this thread................
At least with a Visa you can stay longer time without extention after 30 days, when you arrive with visa you just says will stay for 90 days for example.
I have a Canadian visa and I know every time i visit if they dont write the days Im allow to stay I can stay. For 6 months, but never do it, my stays are max 15 days
Since when do Canadians have a visa that allows them to stay here for 6 months? I have several Canadian friends that would sure like to know about this. They're all freaking out over the possibility of being denied entry.
Where did your friends who are "freaking out" receive specific, legitimate information that they would be denied entry to RD?
I don't think the operative word is "will/would" but is more likely "could", at this point in time. The trend seems to be a slow forward pace towards a more stringent application of immigration law in the DR. History over the past few years supports this conclusion. The prose that we are seeing in the press and from the govt seems to suggest as ww pointed out above, that 30 - 60 day people should not have a problem. It seems that from 30 to 60 days is a gift in return for paying the new higher fee.
Those who continue to game the system with some frequency and overstay the 60 day mark, could be flagged sometime soon, or sometime later for an interview with an immigration official without any additional warning.
As Clint Eastwood said, "Do you feel lucky..."
We have DR1 people who have clearly stated they do not have residency and work here. One goes so far as to state that it is cheaper to pay exit fees than take time off and pay to get residency. While I don't think the bottom line is the primary consideration in the decision, clearly, this person would be big time inconvenienced if one day they were prevented from coming to the DR for what could turn out to be a significant period of time.
I couldn't live with that uncertainty. I'd be pretty peeved at myself if I had to get others to deal with all my stuff here and wrap up all my affairs because I was stuck somewhere else pondering if saving the upfront costs was a good decision in light of not being able to return and who knows how much one would lose having a fire sale being run by others? Just not being able to come back would be a big deal for me. I don't know anyone who is banned from an entire country, where they had work and money tied up. I'm all for saving a bit of money here and there, but think that running the risk of the landlord changing the locks to save a couple of days running around and a few hundred dollars to be a bit extreme.
People will do what people will do. I've given up trying to understand the workings of anyone's mind but my own.
Riva is Dominican and he has a Canadian visa which would allow him to stay in Canada for 6 months but he normally only stays 15 day when he comes to Canada.
They all saw the letter by MIP/DGM on FB saying that those who overstay their tourist card can be denied entry.