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President Abinader establishes committee to review country’s migration legal framework
they can go back to their country and start the process there.
A good friend of mine is married to a Thai woman, who he met and dated in Australia for quite a few years. They now live in Thailand. Thailand is a lot more than Ladyboys and nude dancing.
Thank you . I use facts to explain my position based in the laws, which are not being observed for a special group of people.
I could care less what others think about it.
I'm rooting for the underdogs.
Long Live The Overstayers!
Tell me, which normal tourist with 30 days max would ever feel the need to open a bank account here?It has been reported in the news that banks in the DR will only let people on tourist cards open an account within 30 days of arrival into the DR.
That is because they are only legally here for 30 days when arriving on a tourist card.
Your Legal Status and opening a Bank Account in the Dominican Republic
<p>If you’re a foreign non-resident opening a bank account in the DR, it’s a straightforward process, and local banks are accustomed to establishing accounts for foreigners. So, you’ll have no issues opening an account, assuming you’ve provided the required documentation and are in the country...dominicantoday.com
If you’re a foreign non-resident opening a bank account in the DR, it’s a straightforward process, and local banks are accustomed to establishing accounts for foreigners. So, you’ll have no issues opening an account, assuming you’ve provided the required documentation and are in the country legally. This means for non-residents within the first 30 days of their stay in the country, or if they entered with a visa and did not pass the allowed time.
(Why within 30 days on a tourist card? After that you are NOT LEGALLY IN THE DR... This is very hard for some people to understand. Even some imbecile lawyers it appears.)
Maybe they like to stand on forever lines and hear the words no hay sistema ad nauseam
That’s why a wise man sends his wife to the bank. 😉
If you are referring to foreigners living in the DR, you are right, but as I have said earlier in this thread, the process is unnecessarily complex. I did what you said many years ago and it was fairly difficult then, but now it is worse. I know of many people here, British, Canadian, American and Italian who have started the process and given up. It is even more difficult if you do not have a place to stay somewhere near an Embassy that handles the process, because of all the waiting and back-and-forth that goes on. For example, Brits now have to go the Dom. Embassy in Paris to do it. An English friend of mine was lucky because his family had a place near Paris and they could stay there for a couple of months while going through the process. Other people would not be willing or able to go through the expense and time to do it.
Until there’s 30k Americans, 30k Chinese, 30k Russians engaging in what is nothing more than “birth tourism”, then yeh it’ll probably just and rightly be targeted towards the population practicing this ie Haitians.
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Until the 12th of never, until then the focus will alawys be on Haitians. Others can prettty much do what they please.
Well, to the point of DR rainmakers, Haitians, you know, practice cannibalism, witchcraft, eat the pets, etc. They're not sending their best.
I expect to see a significant drop in numbers for the remainder of this year thanks to Luis stationing immigration officers
at each hospital.
On that I have no doubt.No, they wouldn't work as hard as the Haitians!
Despite that if they are illegal the bosses should be fined and the illegal workers deported.
If they can come up with a work visa, that would be so much better, but I understand they really aren't doing many of those for Haitians these days.
And so it goes.
Immigration Law 285-04 from the year 2004, (article 40 and 36),and law 631-11, state that someone who enters with a visa or tourist card can stay for sixty days. (Article 81). It also provides that tourists can extend their stay. The law describe multiple categories of non residents and how they can extend their stay. If your lawyer calls them fines, keep in mind that immigration itself doesn´t call them that. It´s fees.
So you´re talking about something that WILL happen? I asked a couple of bank employees about this and they had no idea.It has been reported in the news that banks in the DR will only let people on tourist cards open an account within 30 days of arrival into the DR.
That is because they are only legally here for 30 days when arriving on a tourist card.
Your Legal Status and opening a Bank Account in the Dominican Republic
<p>If you’re a foreign non-resident opening a bank account in the DR, it’s a straightforward process, and local banks are accustomed to establishing accounts for foreigners. So, you’ll have no issues opening an account, assuming you’ve provided the required documentation and are in the country...
Am I surprised that a bank employee has no idea of DR laws regarding accounts? Uhm nope.
No, this is something that does happen as was said in very simple language from the article:
After 30 days on a tourist card, you are in the country illegally and should not be allowed to open a bank account. Does that still happen? You are in the DR..