Travelling to Europe for Dominican citizens changes in 2024

johne

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I was being satirical in repsonse to your prevous post of my joyless existence. I guess you missed that and so might have JD Jones.

I had about 6 hours to wait at the TWA hotel this very early AM for an early morning Jet Blue flight that brought us back, so it was at the very end of our time in the USA.
I have been on "vacation" since 2003.

We have to plan our next trips out of the DR now.

Go Yankees...

I have gotten visas for my wife to Mexico, Canada, and the USA. The USA one was a joke in how it had to be done.
I have gotten residency in the USA for 6 people. One of them twice.
Perhaps then, you should improve your writing skills. I don't miss anything you say or the intent of your posts. What i think of them is my personal views and I would not want to be so rude as to publish them on a public forum.
 

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Perhaps then, you should improve your writing skills. I don't miss anything you say or the intent of your posts. What i think of them is my personal views and I would not want to be so rude as to publish them on a public forum.
I was under the impression that he was being sarcastic with the joyless.
 
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All I want to know is what a lawyer can do in the process that I cannot do myself. Those details. What exactly is 2,000 USD paying for?

I'm very aware of immigrant problems and have been forever and ever.

Gosh surely this is obvious. A lawyer knows the requirements back to front and knows how to submit your application to maximise your chances of success.

In my case we applied for a UK visa which involves filling in a form online. The lawyer then wrote a letter to accompany the application which referred to each of the requirements of the relevant immigration act and then referred to the evidence submitted. She told us what evidence to gather and she submitted it in a way that she ensured that we maximised the chances of success. Without the lawyer you would be tempted to fill in the form and you wouldn't know exactly what additional information to submit.
 

johne

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I was being satirical in repsonse to your prevous post of my joyless existence. I guess you missed that and so might have JD Jones.

I had about 6 hours to wait at the TWA hotel this very early AM for an early morning Jet Blue flight that brought us back, so it was at the very end of our time in the USA.
I have been on "vacation" since 2003.

We have to plan our next trips out of the DR now.

Go Yankees...

I have gotten visas for my wife to Mexico, Canada, and the USA. The USA one was a joke in how it had to be done.
I have gotten residency in the USA for 6 people. One of them twice
I'll keep you on the pray list. It's a group. No cost.
 

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Good time to remember it's much more difficult to recognize sarcasm on line than in person.
I've been working remotely the last decade or so, you could not be more right, and this is one of the core topics on communication training on every company I've worked for. For this reason, companies are also nowadays, as per my observation, emphasizing the requirement of "excellent communication skills" on their job advertisements. It's not the sarcasm obviously, it has to do with the communication as a whole. For this reason, as well, I've noted that increasingly cameras are preferred in remote work setting. When I started working fully remotely, in 2010, cameras were used much much less than today. At least in the companies I've worked.
 

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The EU looks far more difficult for my wife get a visitor's visa than all but what I had to do for her to get a USA visitor's visa.
And from the information needed, I very much doubt our current situation would qualify her for one.
That is why I was looking for the details that might help.
I might be completely in the wrong here, but based on all that I've heard and seen, unless proven otherwise, I refuse to believe just like that that currently US Visa would be easier to obtain than a Schengen one for a Dominican citizen?

May I kindly ask what is your current situation then?

And as the Spanish embassy has been "trashed" in this thread on a multiple occasions, would the German one not work for you guys? I just know that we've been to the Dutch and German embassies, and the service and attitude have always been outstanding, but that's just me...
 
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I might be completely in the wrong here, but based on all that I've heard and seen, unless proven otherwise, I refuse to believe just like that that currently US Visa would be easier to obtain than a Schengen one for a Dominican citizen?

May I kindly ask what is your current situation then?

And as the Spanish embassy has been "trashed" in this thread on a multiple occasions, would the German one not work for you guys? I just know that we've been to the Dutch and German embassies, and the service and attitude have always been outstanding, but that's just me...
Windeguy doesn’t even want to make the effort to go to the embassy, so he better forget it.
 
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I've been working remotely the last decade or so, you could not be more right, and this is one of the core topics on communication training on every company I've worked for. For this reason, companies are also nowadays, as per my observation, emphasizing the requirement of "excellent communication skills" on their job advertisements. It's not the sarcasm obviously, it has to do with the communication as a whole. For this reason, as well, I've noted that increasingly cameras are preferred in remote work setting. When I started working fully remotely, in 2010, cameras were used much much less than today. At least in the companies I've worked.
What worries me is that for many people unfiltered online behavior is becoming the norm and it starts to affect their real life social behavior.
 
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What worries me is that for many people unfiltered online behavior is becoming the norm and it starts to affect their real life social behavior.
I have voiced my concerns about this for years as it relates to : covid, immigration, legal, Santo Domingo, the President's capacity for governing, false statements, trolling, religion, and more.

It's sad that DR1 is used by some for personal agendas and to feed their egos. The mods do the best they can under the circumstances and I admire their patient and diplomatic control of the forum.
 
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What worries me is that for many people unfiltered online behavior is becoming the norm and it starts to affect their real life social behavior.
Maybe stop the anonymous profile system. That would also reveal fake profiles and maybe someone having more than one profile.
 

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I was under the impression that he was being sarcastic with the joyless.
At least one person realized that. We had a rather nice trip in the USA for 10 days that would have about doubled in cost had a lawyer been needed to get a visa for 2,000 USD.
 

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Perhaps then, you should improve your writing skills. I don't miss anything you say or the intent of your posts. What i think of them is my personal views and I would not want to be so rude as to publish them on a public forum.
Well, you totally missed my sarcasm.
 

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Gosh surely this is obvious. A lawyer knows the requirements back to front and knows how to submit your application to maximise your chances of success.

In my case we applied for a UK visa which involves filling in a form online. The lawyer then wrote a letter to accompany the application which referred to each of the requirements of the relevant immigration act and then referred to the evidence submitted. She told us what evidence to gather and she submitted it in a way that she ensured that we maximised the chances of success. Without the lawyer you would be tempted to fill in the form and you wouldn't know exactly what additional information to submit.
Finally some relevant information. Thank you. The forms I have seen have no place for such additional information. Without knowing they would actually look at such information from a lawyer (or myself) , one could not assume it would be of any value to add additional documents.

The biggest problem I see on EU visas is that neither of us have worked at a day job for over 20 years. Being retired, that is how that goes. That is the biggest challenge I see to being qualified for an EU visa.
 

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Good time to remember it's much more difficult to recognize sarcasm on line than in person.
I find it hard to believe that my response was interpreted as anything but satire, but in the future I must endevour to add sufficent hyperbole to make that more obvious.

At least now I know a lawyer can be contracted to add a letter, at a cost of about $2,000 USD, that would explain in detail how the person actually qualifies for a visitor's visa according to the letter of the visa laws. That is above and beyond the relatively straight forward information already needed on the visa forms which are similar in requirements to applying for legal residency (and in our case would be missing some significant areas due to our being retired for 20 years like income from a job) in some countries (no hyperbole here) ,

And then a personal interview is needed at an embassy in Santo Domingo.

At the end of the day, while a trip to the EU is desired, it appears less likely unless the rules change. We will have to live with going to the USA and other places that are on the list where Dominicans can travel visa free -- once again no hyperbole here.
 
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The biggest problem I see on EU visas is that neither of us have worked at a day job for over 20 years. Being retired, that is how that goes. That is the biggest challenge I see to being qualified for an EU visa.
Steady income requirement is much like the DR. I am in a self funded ‘midlife retirement’ so I can’t apply for DR residency. If I go back to a fulltime job I could but I wouldn’t have the time and need for it. It is a contradiction I could whine about all day.
 
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Steady income requirement is much like the DR. I am in a self funded ‘midlife retirement’ so I can’t apply for DR residency. If I go back to a fulltime job I could but I wouldn’t have the time and need for it. It is a contradiction I could whine about all day.
Then the applicaiton would fail no matter what a lawyer would write up about her. Oh well.