Why is everyone getting their panties in a wad, this law IMHO is clearly aimed at Haitian immigrants, at least in the enforcement, if not the letter of said law; (if and when it is ever actually enforced). I seriously doubt they will start rounding up foreigners and sending them away, regardless of their residency status, unless they have a very specific reason to.
you are 100% wrong.
of course the biggest amount of immigrants is coming from the neighboured Haiti, that's logical by location aside of many other reasons, but the immigration laws are in no way just done for Haitian citizens.
and you are completely wrong with your untrue remark on the enforcement. during my 14 years on the Isle i can not count how often immigrations collected dozens of truck loads of illegal immigrants of all nationalities and sent them back to where they belonged. deportations of illegal immigrants is something happening every month many times, and that's good.
in prior posts people mentioned that their home countries give illegal immigrants free lodging and social security aso aso, so what??? does that meant the dominican republic should be the same stupid than your home country? do you wanna tell me that you are a poor soul who is chased by some religious/fundamentalist aso stupi$s so you need the protection of the dominican gubmin??
all those 'high educated' expats coming over here to the banana republic should be educated enough to understand the sence of our immigrations laws and should also be able to pay the really small fees our country asks for to get that residency, which is a simple and absolutely hassle free process.
if you can't afford that you are for sure not a member of the community who spend's his/her money over here to assist the country. there are still thousands out there which are just a p.i.t.a. for the local communities, they did not move anything back home in mother's country and they will never do so over here, i applaud to each who get's loaded on the truck and carried to the next airport for the ride home to mom, even that in very most cases mom does not wanna know anything about him/her arriving back there.
every country has it's laws, for immigrations, for driving a vehicle on public roads, for starting a business aso aso, just for everything. the DR has that, too. if somebody plans to leave his/her homecountry for what ever reason and start over again in a foreign country, that person should first check out what is present/fact/needed/required at what other country, and then decide where to go, but to go to somewhere without a clue about what to expect and cry afterwards b/c present rules/laws/behaviors do not suit the own likings, that's the most stu and uneducated thing i could think about.
and as a remark from my own 14 years of experience with my own busniness here in the DR, things changed a lot since back in the day when i started here, but they always been clear, and compared to so many other countries where i spent times prior to my arrival including 6 years in the US i know that things are much easier and clearer to handle/run/start over here than in other places.
the people who always have probs are the ones coming over with the big idea that sun/clean air/and white beaches are enough for a living in paradise, then they find out that their big homemade education is not worth more than to get a simple low level job which pays 300-400 US$ and often much less per month, so most can not even afford to get a residency, drivers license, pay med insurance, build a house aso aso, and for their own failure they start to blame the gubmin or the non educated dominican people. hey, those 'non educated' people find their meal every day and can afford their legal papers, and they do it according to the law. who doesn't like that, just jump on that truck or better, don't come over here in the first place.
By the way another reason, I would like to get my residency at least underway, is that I am looking into starting a business hopefully in about 6 months, and I realize that there are added protection etc. with having residency.
i would not even consider to start a own busines without beeing a legal resident of the country where i want to start/operate my business.
Perhaps he was wearing shorts?
L V
short and clear,
that answer is one of the best since a while, ha ha.
Mike
