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    Travelling to Europe for Dominican citizens changes in 2024

    Yepp, Lucky ba***** 😜. But why do you need residency? There are multiple posts and threads about it being completely pointless to have DR residency as you can just overstay and pay the "fee" when you leave... Well I'm a citizen anyways, and I couldn't be happier about not having to care about...
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    Travelling to Europe for Dominican citizens changes in 2024

    I was actually arguing a bit with the Spanish Embassy about this bit that the visa procedure should be free for my wife as we are married, and we've always had to pay for the application. That's because there are different visa's, and as I'm not Spanish taking my family to Spain, instead it's an...
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    Travelling to Europe for Dominican citizens changes in 2024

    And you don't think that Venezuelans, Peruvians, Colombians do as well? It would be interesting to see any specific numbers on that as I honestly don't think there's any difference between any of these nations as if they are in a "difficult" situation they would go to wherever they have a better...
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    Travelling to Europe for Dominican citizens changes in 2024

    Has nothing to do with the problem at the Spanish consulate. And yes they can create their own rules of how to process the applications, that's quite obvious with how the Spanish consulate process visa applications vs other countries embassies/consulates. My wife has applied several times and...
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    Banco Popular ATM withdrawal foreign debit card

    0.99? For Remitly? I just checked and they would charge me almost €4 for a transaction. I have my account in Swedish Krones, so perhaps it's cheaper to use Euro. But it's not like you can switch between currencies. If you started your account in one currency you have to stick with it. I earn...
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    Olympic Soccer Now DR vs. Spain

    Technically it's not a B or C team, the entire tournament is U-23, so players up to 23 years old. And comparing the two squads only 2 players from the Euro is playing in the Olympics team.
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    Another moto accident

    For many I doubt it really matters. I know of too many people who are in constant moto accidents who still don't learn. I remember a anecdote about a man who a friend knew. He had just been in a serious moto accident, he was the passenger and the driver died, none of them had a helmet...
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    DR electricity service affected by Beryl

    What are you talking about? "here power cables are not buried underground".. YES they are, obviously not the high voltage overhead power lines, but the residentials yes they are, even in many places out on the countryside. I'm from Sweden and the powerlines are underground in residential areas...
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    Selling a plot of land in Sosua.

    Yes, barrio. The main street is horrible to transit on, too narrow for 2 way traffic when everyone is parking on the side of the road. Whenever my family and I go to the river that lies beyond Maranatha, I prefer taking the long road up the mountain, just to not have to go through Maranatha. One...
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    Selling a plot of land in Sosua.

    By the look of the map, it's not in Sosúa Abajo, it's up the hill from Maranatha, it's a s*it location. The plot is on a hill right? At least from the location of the pin I think I know where it is, it's either in the middle of a hill or ontop of it. And yeah I don't think you would get more...
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    Cheapest ATM withdrawals with revolut or wise cards?

    Yes happened to me as well, and I had to wait 30 days before I was reimbursed. So I never take out more than 10k just to avoid any problems as sometimes the ATMs even only have $RD 200 bills (although it was a LONG time ago that happened). I use BHD ATMs and I'm not charged using my Wise card...
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    It’s almost time to renew ID cards

    You are aware that we're already doing that, right? It's called a SMARTPHONE.......:rolleyes:
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    Road between Sosúa and Cabarete

    Something that would help, would be to set up something similar to guardrails in between the lanes, where it shouldn't be necessary to go over to the other lane. That way it would stop all the stupid overtakings that are one of the root causes of so many recent accidents. And either get more...
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    Road between Sosúa and Cabarete

    Just saw a FB post that there was another accident last night there. And yes that accident last Monday was very ugly, and from what I've heard is was another vehicle that was overtaking the public transport car and wasn't able to get back into his lane. There is even footage of that other...
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    Road between Sosúa and Cabarete

    I'm a bit surprised that nobody has commented that last few weeks CRAZY traffic accidents that has occurred on the "highway" between Sosúa and Cabarete, specifically around Perla Marina. There has been at least half a dozen serious accidents on that road just the last few weeks, and the worst...
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    Motorcyclists violating traffic laws are a national epidemic; yet, politicians are on their side

    Only hope that's this "initiative" isn't only going to happen in SD or STI but also here around Sosúa. Had an accident just 3 days with a Moto without lights, speeding, no helmet (who bothers to have a helmet on) and also been drinking. So frustrating to have to deal with all the sh*t afterwards...
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    What’s next for a crackdown on Haitian migrants as the Dominican Republic leader enters a new term?

    Then those are most likely legal residents here, and not those who are being discussed in this thread.
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    What’s next for a crackdown on Haitian migrants as the Dominican Republic leader enters a new term?

    Nope. I've not checked lately, but I know of "maestros de construcción" (can't remember the word in English right now) that explicitly used Haitians, not because there's no Dominicans, but because they pay Haitians half or even 1/3 of what they would pay a Dominican.
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    What’s next for a crackdown on Haitian migrants as the Dominican Republic leader enters a new term?

    My point to include this was that if they cannot even enforce such a simple thing as NO alcohol before and during the election when even those who should be enforcing it are drinking, then I wouldn't hold my breath that they would enforce even more complex issues.
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    What’s next for a crackdown on Haitian migrants as the Dominican Republic leader enters a new term?

    On that same note, why only mention Haitians? If there would be any justice ALL illegal immigrants should be thrown out, even those who are living in big houses and pay to leave should be deported and hunted down just as the Haitians... And also if all haitian workers would be deported, then...