$3-4,000 during 2 months?
That’s what two couples spend at the Hard Rock resort during a 5 day stay and excluding airfare (from which the DR government gets some extra tax money.)
Just saying... lol
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Dominican Immigration has extended the stay for tourist
$3-4,000 during 2 months?
That’s what two couples spend at the Hard Rock resort during a 5 day stay and excluding airfare (from which the DR government gets some extra tax money.)
Just saying... lol
Knaw...waist of money , poor smucks are pulling a stupid by crossing that way...cross at legal border sent back to US cross illegally sent back to Haiti...should of hid in US..now they will have to make way back to North America...
Ok maybe its $5,000 after taxis, restaurants etc ..which I thought was good money for the local economy. Sounds like thinking from RD tourism bureaucracy where they dont care about their confusing immigration "rules" and how they penalize their tourism economy.
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When you speak of "local economy", are you referencing tourist enclaves which contain mostly businesses owned by ex-patriots, or are you speaking of the regular Dominican communities?
Elitist then the socialist. Meanwhile the vacancy rate on beach community real estate stays way too high.
Correct. People that visit the DR and overstay are an insignificant part of the overall economy. But they think they are important.
From a Facebook post yesterday on Everything Sosua
Found out if you are wanting to stay for more than the allowed time in the DR you must get a hold of the DR consulate in your country. and provide them with your Passport # and when you will be going and leaving the DR and if you own property. Seemingly they will then start a list of who will be in the country and that will be sent to the DR for their info and seemingly then you can stay your time (be it 4 month or 6 months or whatever) Check it out folks. OTHERWISE its tops 90 days. CALL YOUR DR CONSULATE AND CHECK IT OUT DON'T BELIEVE ME.. BUT CHECK IT FOR YOURSELF.
Found out if you are wanting to stay for more than the allowed time in the DR you must get a hold of the DR consulate in your country. and provide them with your Passport # and when you will be going and leaving the DR and if you own property. Seemingly they will then start a list of who will be in the country and that will be sent to the DR for their info and seemingly then you can stay your time (be it 4 month or 6 months or whatever) Check it out folks. OTHERWISE its tops 90 days. CALL YOUR DR CONSULATE AND CHECK IT OUT DON'T BELIEVE ME.. BUT CHECK IT FOR YOURSELF.
Could this be the famous 'Overstay List' we talk about?
A reasonably short list of permitted overstays...
Could be a classic misinterpretation of the overstay phenomenon...
badly expressed Spanish & English
Chief Insp Clouseau
You have made this point before, but as I have said before, in places like Cabarete snowbird overstayers are a very significant and important part of the local economy.
Well - now they have a solution to the 'legality'...
and continuing to support the local economy.
I'll ask Gordito's if they swing any weight....
and continuing to support the local economy.
I'll ask Gordito's if they swing any weight....
I doubt that this is even true, but even if it is, I don't see how it really changes anything(?). Under the current law, you can only legally stay in the country with a tourist card for a max of 60 days(not 90 like the poster says).
I agree that compared to AI tourists, snowbirds are a small portion of the tourist dollars generated here, but that doesn't mean that the DR isn't interested in this segement of overall tourist dollars.
Take ecotourism for example. That would be an even smaller portion of overall tourism, but the DR is actively promoting it. Just recently, the DR Civil Aviation authorities merged their flight planning software to allow American and Canadian private pilots to file electronic flight plans - the first country in the Caribbean to do so. This is being done to help promote general aviation here. This segement of tourism is miniscule compared to snowbirds, but the DR is still interested in promoting it.
This whole overstay system was put in place twenty some years ago as a way of circumventing the law to allow and further promote snowbird tourists. It also generates millions of dollars annually to DGM's budget - something that they will be very reluctant to give up. My bet is they won't give up the overstay system until they find a way to issue longer term visas.
Today a policía nacional guy jumped out of his truck as I was preparing to leave the monument after lunch. He told me it was just such a nice day, and asked if I had a drink to share with him.
Unfortunately I just had mil peso bills so I told him I agreed it was a nice day but, I didn't have small bills on me at the moment otherwise I would be glad to pay him a drink. He shook my hand and said good day.
They aren't even checking anymore to see if my dash cam is turned off...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ im obviously a gringo and he didn't ask for any details.
If you get stopped in the airport I guess just tell them you owe a PN a refresco and they are obligated to let you back into the country.
I'm leaving again soon and will keep my fingers crossed when I return. It's not even that I can't apply for a residency visa but it's just a hassle.
Unfortunately I just had mil peso bills so I told him I agreed it was a nice day but, I didn't have small bills on me at the moment otherwise I would be glad to pay him a drink. He shook my hand and said good day.
They aren't even checking anymore to see if my dash cam is turned off...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ im obviously a gringo and he didn't ask for any details.
If you get stopped in the airport I guess just tell them you owe a PN a refresco and they are obligated to let you back into the country.
I'm leaving again soon and will keep my fingers crossed when I return. It's not even that I can't apply for a residency visa but it's just a hassle.
And I will make the point that the DR government , you know the one in Santo Domingo, does not consider the overstayers on the North Coast to be important. And Santo Domingo makes the policy.
We can go back and forth on this, but there is not yet any snowbird visa, nor is there any indication there will ever be one.
In fact there is more discussion by the government toward enforcement of existing laws as indicated by the recent release from DR Migracion about overstaying.
As the poster on FB suggested, you could call the DR consulate in your home country if you doubt what they said.
Myself, I have already read the document from Migracion on overstayers.
