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Avoiding paying for overstay?
UK government advice as of today on extending the tourist card on the Foreign Office website.......
Visas
All visitors need a tourist card to enter the Dominican Republic. You can get a tourist card before travel from the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in London , or on arrival at the airport at a cost of US$10 or equivalent. The Dominican Republic Embassy website has more information.
Tourist cards are initially valid for a 30-day stay but can be extended by paying for an extension when you leave the country.
Has anyone successfully done this? I don't think so. The only story I've heard is that someone tried to extend it, and they were told to pay the fee at the airport.
All of the sites, from Migracion and the sites from the consulates all over the world say different things. Some are true, some are false, some are both and neither.
It's like the shell game with no shell.
The 'new passport routine' used by some posters would appear cost effective after an 18 months overstay assuming some postal charges involved in getting passport to you. (fee to 12 to 18 months is 6500rd at present)
Clears the slate too for persons who have not left since May 2015.
I am not totally adverse to telling a bit of a lie, but when it is said to a government official in his/her official as said governmet official it is into perjury, and I am scared to go that far myself. SO if losing your passport and reporting it stolen and then buying a new one for $134,00 and then pretending you arrove between when you threw away your old passport and when the new one became effective is your thing, go for it. Worked for CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC apparently, or so I understand was his story. ANd a modified version worked for me. But I didn't throw away a perfectly good passport just to avoid said fees.
Der Fish
Thanks, but unless I?m blind, there is absolutely no information behind that link, only the reference to the respective law (no, I did not have time to research what the law says) and the requirements to apply, but no actual information as to what I am applying for. Then again, I did not do any extensive research.
The link SantiagoDR posted was really good, thanks for that as well.
Yes they have removed some words that you provide the information below to DGM
Turista
a) Formulario debidamente llenado y firmado
b) Pasaporte con vigencia m?nima de seis (6) meses a partir de la prorroga.
c) 2 Copia de la carita del pasaporte donde est?n los datos personales.
d) 2 Copia de la ?ltima entrada al pa?s.
e) Certificado m?dico expedido por un medico autorizado con su debido exequ?tur.
f) El pago de los derechos previstos
That link is from the DGII (the tax department) and I believe from 2010.
Fact is that what drSix wrote in post #29 is spot on....
All of the sites, from Migracion and the sites from the consulates all over the world say different things. Some are true, some are false, some are both and neither.
It's like the shell game with no shell.
It's a shambolic mess and you rely on the Tax Ministry to provide you with best available current information on the Tourist card which is legislated for under Immigration Laws which are the basis for the DGTT operations and they state nothing other than references within the law and regulations.
The overstay fee is a necessary function of government. pay your share, cheapskate! and do not ever complain about illegal immigration, anywhere.
If you overstay and they have a legal fee that applies when you leave and you do pay that fee when you leave (remember, you do leave).....it that considered illegal immigration?
Yes, this is there, but I was referring to information such as what dv8 posted from another thread (procedure, cost, what you get and when etc.).
while posed in the third person (if someone leaves) I inferred he was referring to himself. nevertheless, anyone should feel it a privilege to pay their fair share, especially when coming from rich countries headed to poor countries.
Yes and no. immigration implies a desire to stay where you are headed. the point regarding illegal immigration as a broadly used, inaccurate, hot button issue that everyone understands...Yes being in a country without authorization is an "illegal immigrant" in the common parlance of the day. Perhaps not as a legal term. but commonly understood.