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Purpose of Blood Test in REsidency Procedure
I don't know anyone who didn't pass the medical components, but I do know someone who had a relatively minor criminal conviction that put a stop to his residency visa application back home.
It is indeed for drug testing and STD's, especially HIV since you have to sign a disclosure for the HIV blood test and the X-Ray for TB.
The POP office is totally clueless and useless for what you really need. I have been misled and misdirected by the POP office and will no longer deal with them.
I only paid once right after it became an option (instead of proving solvency).
I didn't have to renew it for my last temporary and didn't get asked for it for my permanent first time or the renewal this year.
That is the 64,000 peso question.
Has anyone ever heard of someone failing the medical exam and what happened after that?
I see that the question has been partly answered. A failed drug test seems to be a reason for concern. Other than HIV or TB, probably not much else to worry about, but we will never actually know for certain.
X-Ray & Blood Test
I renewed in 2018.... initial residency was 2008
They did both on me last April.
As has been said before -
Permanent residency is a misnomer
I renewed in 2018.... initial residency was 2008
They did both on me last April.
As has been said before -
Permanent residency is a misnomer
I don't know if it's required for a permanent residency renewal, but when I renewed my temporary in April, the insurance was one of the required items on the DGM website that had to be uploaded for approval. It was also required that I submit the original at DGM when I renewed and was on the "checklist" of required items that I had to sign.
Well I just got my initial temporary residency last month ,but in the process I paid twice for this insurance. When I went through the Consulate in Miami they said I had to have this insurance to procede so okay I paid about 130 which is good for a year . Well when I came to Santo Domingo for the second part of the process I was told that I had to purchase insurance to this i said I have already purchased it and here are the documents. Well they replied that I had to buy insurance from here from a different company so i have two insurance for residency. I still have no good explanation on why this came about.
That's because only the three "special" insurance companies here in the DR are working with DGM!
"Strangely" if you have the Investor Residency, you don't need the medical or the repatriation insurance. You just need to prove that you have a foreign income of US$2000 either from property rental or pension income, and that you're bringing this into the country.
As an investor class resident, I did not need the medical but was informed that I would need to secure repatriation insurance this time around. Next time, who knows.
It certainly can. Occasional use is metabolized and expelled rather quickly. With chronic use the metabolites are stored in fat cells. The more of those you have, the longer it takes to get expelled. If you are applying for something that requires a drug test chunky people and those who smoke often will need to plan several months in advance to be sure.
Drink cranberry juice until you practically puke.....
All the potheads know that trick
What happens is....... nothing.
You still get your residency card along with a reminder that laws regarding weed are diffrent than those of your home country.
They ask you to provide a "clean" urine test as soon as you can, said test can be done by any lab of your choosing for 500 pesos.
And thats that.
Nothing in your "record" . When you hand them your 2nd urine test they think its for meds abuse ( tells you the sad state of residency demanders in the dr......lol ).
Is GMI one of those 3 because that is the company that the Miami Consulate had me purchased this insurance from ?
There you go https://www.migracion.gob.do/Menu/SubList/40
No medical and no repatriation insurance required to renew an investor visa if you have property rental income coming into the DR from abroad.