But what if you are on a tourist card which is only valid for 30 days? How can you be illegally in the country after day 30, but have a valid out of country license for 90 days?
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But what if you are on a tourist card which is only valid for 30 days? How can you be illegally in the country after day 30, but have a valid out of country license for 90 days?
Of course there are, but the vast majority of people posting here are on tourist cards which are valid for 30 days.
Those are the ones to which I refer. I understand that there are some who have other types of visas which may allow their licenses to be valid up to 90 days, but it is misleading to state that 90 days is really valid for everyone.
It's only valid while you're in country legally, up to 90 days.
Have some caffeine, you're usually more on the ball than this.
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A person on a tourist card is legally in the country for up to 30 days. That is a fact you are choosing to ignore. This has been confirmed the DR1's lawyer. After 30 days, such a person has to pay a "fee" for overstaying their tourist cards. So, they are not legally in the country up to anytime past 30 days.From the DGII site:
https://www.dgii.gov.do/tarjetaTuristica/EN/Support/faq/Paginas/default.aspx
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A person on a tourist card FROM THE US OR CANADA is legal for 30 days. You're ignoring that people some from other countries, and enter by other means than the tourist card. Not all countries have the same 30 day limit.
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I specifically referred to people on tourist cards and or ones from North America/Canada/USA. YOU failed to notice that detail. All tourist cards are valid for 30 days.
No, I did notice you trying to move the goalposts. The DL limitation applies to more than just US and Canadian tourists. Hence why it's longer than those tourists cards are valid.
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I never had any intention to move the goal posts, please show me where I did and I will correct it. I just read all of my comments on this thread. I was always VERY clear about tourist cards being involved with a 30 day limit.
Your are wrong, I never moved the goal posts.
As for those who are exempt from tourist cards, the list is rather small:
https://www.dgii.gov.do/tarjetaTuristica/EN/Support/faq/Paginas/default.aspx
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Well, for one, you could have residency, and be 112 years old with only 1 eye, incapable of understanding any spanish, and so in the impossibility to get a dr DL.
BUT you come from a country that has DL that are valid for a life time, like France, and so you could legally drive 90 days in the dr.
Yes, yes, nittpicking
Your response to Cavok's post #5 is where you started trying to change the parameters. For whatever reason, you got fixated on tourist cards when that post, as I recall, was a reminder residency was renewed. Nothing to do with tourist cards until your reply.
Can we agree that a foreign driver's license may be used in the DR for 90 consecutive days from the date of entry if your immigration status in the country is also valid at the time you are driving within those 90 consecutive days?
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The use of a foreign driver's license is valid in the DR for a period of time less than 90 consecutive days if your immigration status in the country becomes "irregular" less than 90 days from the date of entry.
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Foreigners may use their foreign driver's licenses for a period time not exceeding their legal immigration status or 90 consecutive days from the date of entry which ever is less.
I can't think of another way to say the same thing.
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The use of a foreign driver's license is valid in the DR for a period of time less than 90 consecutive days if your immigration status in the country becomes "irregular" less than 90 days from the date of entry.
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Foreigners may use their foreign driver's licenses for a period time not exceeding their legal immigration status or 90 consecutive days from the date of entry which ever is less.
I can't think of another way to say the same thing.
I see the issue you have, but have no idea why you have that issue. The issue of coming in on a tourist card was being ignored. It is completely relevant to the discussion of how long your foreign driver's license is valid. That is why I mentioned tourist card countries. The vast majority of tourists in the DR are from tourist card countries and can drive legally for 30 days.
Yes you can. No problem with the meaning of your words above.
I simply added the detail that those on tourist cards have 30 days.
As I have already mentioned, I am quite certain that the vast majority of visitors to the DR do not have 90 days of validity in driving on their foreign licenses.
The traffic fines are going up by a law which ties the fines to the basic salary in the DR.
If you are "regulating your status" in most situations you would legally be in the country. It does not specifically have to do with such regulating, but it probably applies to the few people doing so at any given time.
I am currently "regulating my status" by having everything asked of me done and now I wait for my own specialized type of "regularization" based upon incompetence and/or corruption in the Migracion department.
I renewed my DR Driver's License early so that it would cover my "regularization period" which is about 6 months.
Apparently, the use of the words tourist or "tourist card" in reference to anything in this country changes the meaning of all the other words in the English language.
The concept that some visitors may use a foreign driver's license in this country for 90 days while other visitors are not permitted to use one for that time period causes Anaphalactic shock.
The main issue for people driving on foreign DL's who are on a tourist visa and have stayed more than 30 days will come if they have an accident. At that point they will have to show all their documents and it will be discovered that they are not legally in the country, so cannot legally drive and I imagine they will be locked up in one of those "lovely" Dominican prisons while the matter is sorted out. Overstaying on a tourist visa is usually not a problem until something goes wrong, but it just makes bad into worse when it does.