Haitians and Venezuelans are the leading nationality of persons receiving legal residence to live in the Dominican Republic in the past 18 months.
The climate, work, business and investment opportunities, attract thousands of people that come to live in the Dominican Republic. Listin Diario reports that from January 2021 to June 2022, the Dominican Republic had granted definitive, permanent and temporary residency, as well as non-residence, re-entry and student permits to 75,388 people from more than 60 countries.
Nationals from Haiti and Venezuela, two countries involved in political crisis and with a considerable exodus of their citizens, have benefited from fast-tracked rules for acquiring legal status in the Dominican Republic. In the case of Haitians, about 240,000 were first regularized in 2013 by the National Regularization Plan for Foreigners issued by Presidential Decree...
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