The New Residencia Periods
There is a notice at the Immigration Office which indicates that you can renew your Residency for either 2, 4, 6, 8 or 10 years
BUT ...... you have to have held a current Residencia for 10 years prior to being allowed to choose the next period your card will cover.
Costs are RD$ 2,500 for 2 years, RD$ 5,000 for 4 years, RD$ 7,500 for 6 years, RD$ 10,000 for 8 years and RD$ 12,500 for 10 years, all paid up front and for the period you have chosen....... we presume that you can add a one time payment of an additional RD$ 2,000 to avail yourself of the VIP Service? We didn't check but again assume that for 10 years therefore you would pay a total of RD$ 14,500 and get the card same day?
Unfortunately, there's not a lot of thinking goes on at the card printing stage so one would have to ensure that the card you paid for is correct and that they haven't simply 'cut & pasted' the previous applicants info and the normal 2 year expiry date!
Don't laugh..... over the years the wife has been issued with cards which expired before the date they were issued and for the last few times, despite holding a British Passport, she's Dutch on the Residencia & still is. Should we have tried to get that corrected? Why? That could cause a whole long delay in getting it put right and leaving & returning to the DR with the British/Dutch issue doesn't seem to have caused a problem!!!!!