Russell ... I have been in your shoes before and got ****ed off .... then i found out grease the wheel is easy then dealing with the folks who keep changing their mind on what papers I needed.........
What makes immagration here any diffrent than anyplace else in the world. Answer.
Its an island.
It makes it's own rules.
It employs uneducated lazy unqualified biased people.
you can not get recourse to any unfair impossible unreasonable decisions by them.
When they make mistakes it is your fault and you can do nothing correct them.
They have an iron shield on communication with them.
How do you communicate with them to resolve any issue.
For example.
They never answer the one phone number given by their web page.
They give no email listing.
They do not let you enter any office to communicate with them [Guards at door] .
It seems they do not have a means for their own lawyers Dominican lawyers. To communicate with them.
They do not respond or acknolege an form of written correspondence.
It seems that some can hire the most expensive unquilified law firms to attempt to resolve impossible requirements.
I have been told not to pay law firmas pay a go between [they hang out around migration for this service].
This is only a sample listing of how things are done here !
Anyone like to add to this listing please do as it is interesting to see how impossible it is to deal with an invisable agency that only accepts money for implyed services.
Some say do it the dominican way.
Go up into the mountians and dissapear.