immigration office in Puerto Plata?

The Office is situated in the Governors offices next door to the Police Station in Luis Ginebra. As of last week, NO you can't get your residency organised from up here - trips to Santo Domingo are still necessary!! There ARE computers in the Puerto Plata office & they are linked to Santo Domingo. There is the computer linked photgraph machine too, but for some reason they still can't link this up to communicate with Migracion down in the Capital!!

Pay the girl as visit (she is happy to receive visitors for something to do & she is VERY helpful) & I am sure she will give you the reasons why she can't connect her computer so as to complete residency from up here - Maybe next year (or the year after or ......). - Grahame.

can you update your cedular from there?

I just renewed my cedula in Santo Domingo because I was told that all foreigners had to do so there.

Sorry Scottuy - The girl in there says 'NO' this is not possible at the moment, you still have to go to Santo Domingo. Quite honestly, apart from giving general advice & support in times of adversity (& there will be much of that!!) I don't know why they have opened this "Brancg Office" as nothing gets done up here!! Must be 'Jobs for the Boys'!!! - Grahame.

You are right about "jobs for the boys", BB. The more jobs are filled, the more votes for the party.

When I renewed by cedula in Santo Domingo, there were about 8 employees in the office, only one of whom was working. I had to pass from one to the other, but all their job consisted of was passing me on.