I just took a look at my my new "Permanent" residency card. It expires in a year. I thought the whole reason for doing this was that it is valid for 5 years.
I had a townhome in Malibu on PCH for 250K in the 90's...now worth millions,,,and a 3 bedroom house in the Hills in Thousand Oaks..I dont want to think about the millions lost there.. But half of that would have gone to the Ca state govt anyway in taxes.. So it was probably good escaping the socialist republic of California.
I know - it's crazy. From what I've heard, you only get one year before you have to renew the first time. After that, every 4 years. Makes no sense other than a money grab by DGM.
So long ago now, but if I recall, I think I had four 1 year renewals before I could get a 4 year residency card. Then when I had enough of time to go for 10 years, they "lost stuff" and I said screw them and went the citizen route instead of renewals after that last renewal which was required to get citizenship. If it is only 1 year and then you can renew for 4 years, it less of a grab now than before. There is no sense to be made of it. It simply is.
I don't miss those burgers. Their french fries tasted like styrofoam. I don't think there were any close to my house in Fremont.
When my family headed out west to California, we were desperate. The mid west was a dust bowl of unemployment. My gal, Ros-a-sharn and i endured many months of hardship. Grandma didn't make it. The orange field work made the DR sugar cane deal look like a corporate job. But, one day at a time. Here we are today.
A triumvirate of turpitude.
The Bahamas never contacted me. I missed that memo and ended up in the DR. Oh well.
Good for him. In retrospect I woulda coulda shoulda invested about that to purchase the three houses next to each other that were for sale when I purchased only one of the group that I live in. They would have long since paid off the investment from rentals, and provided a buffer to the various nut jobs that owned the other two properties, but hindsight is 20/20 .
Couldn't you have done the medical in Puerto Plata?
NOOOOO. ALL seats were full. As in every seat in the room.
Wow! No more social distancing? When I was there in July, every other seat was blocked off.
That’s so silly. I decided not to renew now. I was in the 4 year permanent program. I would really advise people to think twice about if they need it. It’s really only if you have strong ties to this country. You can have local health insurance without residency papers and I would prioritize that first. You can have bank account and own a property no problem. And if you don’t live here all year round I don’t think it’s necessary. I think just going back a month or two during the year to your home country is enough. In my case I am leaving in April and coming back to the DR in 2023 for 3-4 months. North Americans especially don’t need it as much in my opinion because of the proximity. Being European you can encounter problems if you travel back and forth between the DR and the US without being a resident of neither. Especially US immigration are suspicious of that. I knew an American who experienced a similar problem not being a paper resident of the DR traveling from DR to Brazil via Panama and back to DR almost not getting on the plane in Panama as they couldn’t understand he didn’t have a ticket to the US.
