Residency/Citizenship through marriage to a Dominican
You do not have to leave the DR; if you stay over the 90 day period you would only have to pay a very small fine prior to exiting the country. You have two options for regularizing your immigration status in the DR: either a. Apply for residency through the regular process (legally there are no special treatments for spouses of Dominicans) or b. Apply for Dominican citizenship based on your marriage to a Dominican.
You can obtaining Dominican citizenship as the wife of a Dominican based on Article 11 of the Constitution and Article 1 of Law 1683 of 1948. The application to the Ministry of Interior must be signed by both spouses and must be submitted with the following documents:
1) Certified copy of the marriage certificate, legalized at the Junta Central Electoral. If the marriage took place abroad, the certificate should be authenticated at the nearest Dominican Consulate. If the marriage certificate is in a foreign language, it should be translated into Spanish by a translator certified in the DR and authenticated at the General Attorney?s office in Santo Domingo.
2) Certified copy of the wife?s birth certificate, authenticated at the nearest Dominican Consulate and at the appropriate offices in the Dominican Republic.
3) Certified copy of the husband?s birth certificate, legalized at the Junta Central Electoral.
4) 3 pictures, 2 x 2, of the wife.
5) Photocopy of the husband?s C?dula.
6) Photocopy of the wife?s Passport.
7) Stamps, government fees, etc.
All citizenship applications need to be filed in Santo Domingo
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