This is the key word you must understand when you read what I posted on it.
"Suspected
In-Country
Overstay
Rate"
Do you have any stats on suspected over staying Visa gringos here in the DR? That would be interesting.
This is the key word you must understand when you read what I posted on it.
"Suspected
In-Country
Overstay
Rate"
Today I went with my wife to renew her expiring passport. She has a 10 year visitor's visa to the US, so it actually makes sense for her to have a passport.
When we got to the Puerto Plata office, it was packed with people. It took all day to get the passport renewal process started. People were coming from Santiago at 4 AM and waiting for the office to open.
The office in Santiago is reportedly overwhelmed, so they travelled to Puerto Plata. What was going on?
We found out why. PICHARDO posted a story about someone asking nicely to the US Government to allow Dominicans to travel to the US visa free. PICHARDO posted it as if it were a fact that this would actually happen. Somehow word got out to the Dominicans and they are all now rushing to passport office to take advantage of this. With one problem. Visa free travel for Dominicans to the US is about as likely has the proverbial freezing over of hell. It is not going to happen just because someone asks nice for it.
Yet the result is a rush for Dominicans to get passports. I don't care how nicely you ask for this, the answer is NO! Can you spell gullible?
No data, nor a link to data....more Pichardoisms.
You are persistent/insistent though.
Long live 28:1, smartguns, e-currency, pesos oro, laptops in every school.....and on....and on...and on.
I will take a pass, on face value, on this one too.
Enjoy your evening.
Respectfully,
Playacaribe2
No problem. Yet:
Laptops in every school? Have you gone to schools lately???
Smart-guns? I clearly described the phase by phase manner it would take place and hasn't each step been happening to the end goal?
28:1? Have you noticed that all other currencies have depreciated by leap and bounds in the region and yet the Pesos barely moved?
E-currency? 99% of the state transactions are carried out via electronic payments and transfers. The collection of taxes is also 95% via electronic means. Supermarkets and large chains also have understood that compliance is easier when the bulk of your transactions is made of debit and credit sales and are moving fast to affiliate their clients with their own co-branded cards.
The list grows by the day and now there are 5 mobile pay system active 100% in the DR being adopted in large numbers by the two per population cell smart cell phone and personal devices. Phase by phase!
Pesos Oro? Please DO shut me up and post the NEW monetary Law of the DR that replaced the current and since Trujillo times one, Pesos Oro/convertibles and all. Please, pretty please with sugar ontop.
And on and on...
The thing is that you want things today, and I pretty clear described each event as unfolding and phase by phase on details.
Renewing 10 year US visitor's visas was happening for people who did not violate them well before any of this pie in the sky discussion about visa free travel to the EU or USA.
Yes, and all of the public schools I have visited do not have laptops.....they do not even have enough books/resources/supplies to accommodate the students....let alone your pie in the sky statement of a few years ago....along with that wonderful photo op of a small group holding laptops.........along with your many many photos of all those new schools....that were even exposed by the President as being shells....unfinished and unequipped.
Actually Pichardo you really never did describe anything clearly involving smartguns....or many of the other pie-in-the-sky statements...see below;
Two points here. The first is your deflection to other currencies. We are talking about the peso, not the Bolivar, etc.
That having been said, you have told us over and over the peso would be 28:1 and multiple people on here told you why it would not, could not go to 28:1.
As the multiple charts posted in another thread show, the peso has, over the years, gone from 1:1 against the dollar, to its approximate present day value 45.5:1. Any attempt to manipulate it to 28:1 today would crush the economy.....killing tourism, exports, and remittance values.
You are describing electronic payments not e-currency. E-payments are nothing more than moving paper currency held in banks...from one place to another.
Full e-currency conversion would be.....no more paper money, nada, zilch.....and that is not and will not happen in first world countries for a long time.....and even longer for emerging market economies like the DR.
It has been well established in our prior discussions in the debate thread, that while the peso may have been printed as pesos oro via the monetary law......they were not, and are not re-deemable in gold. Even the government recognized the folly and dropped "pesos oro" from being printed on the bills....as the monetary law never stated they were re-deemable in gold.
Yes, and on and on and on....there are more...lots more...I have kept the list purposely short.
Actually, you did not clearly "described each event as unfolding and phase by phase on details." Your posts in years gone by alluded to imminent, soon......and it has been years and years and years.....and none of the above has taken place....nor is it imminent.
And I respect your right to dream, to wish......just do not expect everyone to buy what you are selling.
I am just happy if they can keep the lights on 24 hours in a row.....
Now that's real progress.
Finally, I take it you won't be providing those mystical visa figures you have alluded too.
Respectfully,
Playacaribe2
Not! Only 5 year renewals were issued before that. Period!
Only five year renewals for Dominicans? Because I know several Colombians who have had renewable USA 10 year visas for a lot longer than that.
Der Fish
Were Dominicans only granted 5 year visitor's visas previously?
The 10 year visas were 1% of visa holders. It was reserved for B2 mostly. Some gov, diplomat's family members, etc...
The new policy is automatically renewing the multiple entry visas on B1/B2 to 10 years.
Yes! And I know a sh*t load of Europeans that didn't have to renew anything to fly to the USA for decades.
Your point?