FYI, "extended tourist VISA" does not exist anymore

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rubenpriego

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As I said in the title, that does not exist anymore.
I was at Inmigration office in SD yesterday.
Anyone overstaying, no need to ask for an extended visa in case you think of it or want to have that way.
You just will have to pay the "penalty" when leaving the country at the airport, nothing else.

In fact, I paid it at Immigration desk, and the paper they gave me, does not even say "penalty" or "overstay", or "ilegal" or anything like that. It just say "pay for stay".

Really light easygoing immigration policy!! After all of that, I really think that doing an overstay in this country you cannot even consider yourself to be called "ilegal" ... dont you think so?

Cheers.
 
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With strong self pride with Dominicans, calling someone illegal would cause big problem for DR. I was advised not to call someone thief or tell someone has stolen goods because that would cause big problem in the court, we had very clear video of him putting away the invorsor and went back later to throw that over the fence and a guy on motorcycle coming to picking it up. Imagine government calling people illegal, that would cause chain reaction of suing everybody.
 
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rubenpriego

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it is another of the curiosities of this country ...
in any country that would mean being ilegal without no doubt and no other word could be used
but in this one, having so cheap "penalties" and they even not using that word, I really dont consider anyone being overstayed to be ilegal in this country at all.
 
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windeguy

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At least they are using the KISS principle for once (Keep It Simple Stupid).

Good to know and thanks for posting that information since this is one of those frequent topics on DR1.
 
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But can they deny entry to those who chronically overstay their tourist card?

To me, that's the real question...(but I have a residence visa, waiting for the cedula...)
 
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rubenpriego

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cobraboy said:
But can they deny entry to those who chronically overstay their tourist card?

To me, that's the real question...(but I have a residence visa, waiting for the cedula...)
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I dont think they should deny it. Take into account that in "overstay fees" table, they give you the figures for even overstaying 7 years and more!!! then why they should deny anything ... more taken into account this is more money for them ....
 
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rubenpriego said:
As I said in the title, that does not exist anymore.
I was at Inmigration office in SD yesterday.
Anyone overstaying, no need to ask for an extended visa in case you think of it or want to have that way.
You just will have to pay the "penalty" when leaving the country at the airport, nothing else.

In fact, I paid it at Immigration desk, and the paper they gave me, does not even say "penalty" or "overstay", or "ilegal" or anything like that. It just say "pay for stay".

Really light easygoing immigration policy!! After all of that, I really think that doing an overstay in this country you cannot even consider yourself to be called "ilegal" ... dont you think so?

Cheers.
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So I guess the score is zero reports of any real world change to the classic tourist card overstay rules, and one more "change? What change?" comment from immigration.
 
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I overstayed 2 months and paid 800 pesos to a very nice and polite customs lady.
 
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bilko

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I overstayed 2 months and paid 800 pesos to a very nice and polite customs lady. that was 2 weeks ago.
 
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windeguy said:
At least they are using the KISS principle for once (Keep It Simple Stupid).

Good to know and thanks for posting that information since this is one of those frequent topics on DR1.
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It's not so easy or simple. Nothing in this country is simple.

True that you won't get into trouble with immigration if you stay past your visa.

But if you get into a car accident, if you accidentally run over someone, if you're robbed and have to interact with the legal system in some manner, it gets 'tricky' and not so 'simple'.

If you're in an accident, and the other side finds out that you've overstayed our visa, it doesn't matter that the accident wasn't your fault...
 
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Friends asked me about this the other day and while it seems no one is having a big problem, just paying the fine...there is always that chance you will be that one person they want to make a example of. To me there is nothing worse then having to deal with bureaucratic bulls**t in a country that is not your own.
 
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I overstayed 87 days and very quickly and easily paid my 800 pesos to a pleasant lady. I got my receipt and proceeded. No harm. No foul.
 
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Ive overstayed 5 months, was at migration zona norte in santiago to ask questions. No problem for the overstay BUT u re only allowed to drive the first month, after officially u cant. The lady who was very helpful and nice told us that it was better if it was my swissdominican wife who drove.... even if she doesnt have a dr license, neither a swiss one by the way.....
 
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windeguy

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malko said:
Ive overstayed 5 months, was at migration zona norte in santiago to ask questions. No problem for the overstay BUT u re only allowed to drive the first month, after officially u cant. The lady who was very helpful and nice told us that it was better if it was my swissdominican wife who drove.... even if she doesnt have a dr license, neither a swiss one by the way.....
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The advice for it is "better for a Dominican to drive with no license" than a visitor with one to drive after one month is priceless.
 
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drstock said:
I thought it was always the gringo's fault, visa or not! :angry:
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Here its very tribal, any expat in any trouble will be ganged up on, guilty or not.

It does help if your family is Dominican my wife has had my back more times than I like to admit, but its the smart way, all 5 feet and 100 lbs of her, let a Dominican look at me cross ways and the teeth come out, let a Dominica look any way at me and out come the claws too......

g'luck
 
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