You overstayed your visit? What on earth for? You hate the DR, why would you purposefully decide to extend your stay, by six months no less?
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I enjoy the exploitability of DR, everyone and everything there is on the take.
but i was extremely fed up at people coming here to tell us Dominican how bad we run our country.
Actually, I would say it is more of an example that your country doesn't run/work at all and is a bordeline failed state. Come on, Puerto Ricans laugh at the DR...
Actually, I would say it is more of an example that your country doesn't run/work at all and is a bordeline failed state. Come on, Puerto Ricans laugh at the DR...
There are so many things wrong with your post, that I don't know where to start.
You, who moved here for 2 years and failed and went back home to the US, are telling them that they have a borderline failed state?
They're still here, still operational, aren't they?
Where are you?
You're not going to tell us that it was their fault that you failed, are you?
Or worse yet, that you were highly successful but you chose to leave?
The thing that gets me is that when they get here they plaster the flags and blast their music all over.. But in reality, if you paid them they still wouldn't go back.
Haitians leave their horrific country to the land that they once dominated in DR. Dominicans leave there land for PR lol
Exhibit A:
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-o/g-opl/AMIO/images/DR/2452.jpg
And what is it that you have done with your life, that is so good that it makes you better that the people you denigrate?
Do you have any claim to fame?
Are there folks who would stand beside you and tell the world what a wonderful soul you are?
That you're a hero?
Some type of saintly missionary?
Or are you just a useless non productive social outcast who tries to make himself feel better by putting other people down?
Tell us please.
Enquiring minds want to know.
Tell us how great you are.
We're all here waiting with bated breath.
I plant my genetic code in every Dominicana that I can find, with the hopes that the seeds planted will bear intelligent fruit.
Each time I donate to the cause of the independent workers striding the strips of DR I teach all of them principals of working for what you want..One good property of my teachings is that that it pays off imminently.
But this isn't about me...
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I think the main point of this thread was to warn people to check what it will cost them for overstaying the tourist card.
It's not against the law to overstay in the DR, just pay the legal amount and knowing the amount is the reason the OP started this thread.
15 Days - 3 Months: $300 Pesos
3 Months - 9 Months: $500 Pesos
9 Months - 1 Year: $2000 Pesos
1 Year - 1.5 Years: $3500 Pesos
1.5 Years - 2 Years: $4500 Pesos
2 Years - 2.5 Years: $6000 Pesos
2.5 Years - 3 Years: $8000 Pesos
3-5 Years: $12000 Pesos
5 Years+: $15000 Pesos
Now if there's anything else to be discussed such as, should immigrants continue with their customs once they leave the DR please start another thread.
It's not against the law to overstay in the DR, just pay the legal amount and knowing the amount is the reason the OP started this thread.
15 Days - 3 Months: $300 Pesos
3 Months - 9 Months: $500 Pesos
9 Months - 1 Year: $2000 Pesos
1 Year - 1.5 Years: $3500 Pesos
1.5 Years - 2 Years: $4500 Pesos
2 Years - 2.5 Years: $6000 Pesos
2.5 Years - 3 Years: $8000 Pesos
3-5 Years: $12000 Pesos
5 Years+: $15000 Pesos
Now if there's anything else to be discussed such as, should immigrants continue with their customs once they leave the DR please start another thread.
bad exchange rate
According to the chart, you only had to pay $500, so offering 20 bucks was either very nice of you to over pay, or you aren't as smart as you think you are!
According to the chart, you only had to pay $500, so offering 20 bucks was either very nice of you to over pay, or you aren't as smart as you think you are!
No fee with receipt
Lambada was right. If you have the receipt from your residency application, you don't have to pay the overstaying fee, since that fee is paid off as part of your application. Therefore, the OP shouldn't have had to pay anything at all. It took my rather inept lawyer a year and 7 months to get me my provisional residency card (a record?), and in the meantime I left and entered the country quite a few times. Each time I showed a photocopy of the receipt. I was sent into the office many times to get approval from the supervisor, but in the end they let me through without paying, apart from one time when they forced me to buy a tourist card to get back into the country. You just have to stand your ground and insist that you don't have to pay.
Lambada was right. If you have the receipt from your residency application, you don't have to pay the overstaying fee, since that fee is paid off as part of your application. Therefore, the OP shouldn't have had to pay anything at all. It took my rather inept lawyer a year and 7 months to get me my provisional residency card (a record?), and in the meantime I left and entered the country quite a few times. Each time I showed a photocopy of the receipt. I was sent into the office many times to get approval from the supervisor, but in the end they let me through without paying, apart from one time when they forced me to buy a tourist card to get back into the country. You just have to stand your ground and insist that you don't have to pay.
Thank you for confirming that, Kiboko. As you illustrate, so much of life here is about being firm yet charming, it is about body language & self confidence not about written regulations. Well done on insisting on your rights. 
We need more people to do that, quietly but firmly, in all walks of life.
We need more people to do that, quietly but firmly, in all walks of life.Well my educated friend, I did not enter the country illegally, and please prove to me where overstaying the 30 day tourist card is breaking the law of the land. I would like to read it for myself. If it is indeed a law, why has no one reportedly been charged with "breaking the law"?
When I get stopped by the police in the DR. I answer their questions and they let me go. I don't have to throw not even 1 peso. I know there is a lot of corruption in the DR. and it's obvious that you are encouraging it.
Undereducation!! Well well, educated people don't throw nothing in the face of other people.
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I am still waiting an answer to the same question I asked a couple of days ago
Do you really want him to come back?
Wouldn't we all prefer that he crawl back into the whole from whence he came?
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