- Thread starter jaguarbob
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Overstay fees
I found this on the web:
These fees begin 1 day after you overstay your 30 day tourist card. Extrapolating to 13 years it looks like only 100,000 pesos.
These fees begin 1 day after you overstay your 30 day tourist card. Extrapolating to 13 years it looks like only 100,000 pesos.
1 DAY – 3 MONTHS RD $2,500
3 – 9 MONTHS RD $4,000
9 – 12 MONTHS RD $5,000
12 – 18 MONTHS RD $6,500
18 – 24 MONTHS RD $8,000
24 – 30 MONTHS RD $9,500
30 – 36 MONTHS RD $11,000
36 – 48 MONTHS RD $16,000
48 – 60 MONTHS RD $20,000
6 YEARS RD $30,000
7 YEARS RD $40,000
8 YEARS RD $50,000
9 YEARS RD $60,000
10 YEARS RD $70,000
Interesting. Because if he goes to the Greek embassy and gets a new passport, how will they know he has overstayed?
I saw that in the airport in Santiago... if you show up for a flight with a new passport with no stamps... if you cant produce the old one, you will be sent home to find it...immigration needs the number off the old one for their computer to determine your overstay fee......
I suppose you do not report that the day you show up at the airport. So , doing that well in advance the authories would have time to check what is necessary in order to re-issue a new passport.
If my passport was stolen or lost, I would go to the embassy as soon as I could to start to get a new one. If it was right before a flight out, I would cancel the flight, knowing I ain't going nowhere without a passport. If it was a true emergency, I would ask the embassy for help. But still, I wouldn't have the old passport.
They have the passport # so they should be able to look it up in their database, assuming of course a functioning database.
When I had my UK passport stolen I went to the British embassy as I was in Santo Domingo at the time. They would have given me some kind of "get out of the country" document if I was a tourist, but as I was staying here I had to apply in the UK for a new passport. That involved sending various documents to the UK passport office by courier and getting the new one sent here.
My thoughts exactly. There must be a workaround in that case. Lost/stolen/destroyed..... maybe it’s like when you lose a parking ticket, you have to pay the maximum. 😳
You get a laissez-passer to fly back to your country of origin. You redo a new passport at your place of residence.
Ask me how I know 😂
Several years ago an American man who was living with a Dominicana in Puerto Plata posted on the board that he could not find his passport and suspected that she had hidden it to prevent him from leaving.
His brother was dying and he needed to return to the US. I helped him complete the paperwork for a replacement passport before he went to the Consulate.
He told me later that because it was a new passport he wasn't charged overstay fees.
This was not recently so it might not be the case now or perhaps he just happened to encounter someone who was willing to let the overstay slide.
Several years ago they didn't have the computerized system that they do now. If you need to return in a short period of time, you'll have to get a temporary passport. As long as you have the number of the lost/stolen passport, you shouldn't have any problem with the overstay fees.
From personal experence finding your old passport number is your responsibility...I gave myself a extra 1 hour at the Santiago airport to test this... the end result was go home until you find it....once I produced the old number, into the computer it went and gave the nice lady my overstay fee.. it was less than expected... yes the computer system they are using does work... if you dont have the old passport number a trip to the USA embassey is next, and how long it will take them ...who knows....