I realize I should perhaps clarify a bit as well, so we were discussing with the embassy in SDQ about a 3-month visa based on family visiting (still a tourist visa I think) for my wife's mother, for her to visit us...
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Travelling to Europe for Dominican citizens changes in 2024
Please, there is nothing anyone is trying to keep secret so stop with that. Maybe reach out to a lawyer and find out what they have to offer in terms of helping with visa applications. Again, stop with the secrecy theory. Everyone has the right to choose if they want to use a lawyer to assist with the process whether you think it is necessary or not.
Sounds like somewhere in between a visitors/tourist visa and temporary residency. Here there would be a good argument for using an immigration attorney.
Nothing to do with residency as far as I understand, just a 90 day visa:
Visados Schengen
Para estancias de corta duración hasta un máximo de 90 días.
santo-domingo.diplo.de
The long line forms daily at the embassy for those seeking tourist visas to the US. And the list of denials is also lengthy.......often times the decision having been made long before you get to the window. To set yourself apart imho, and in reality, is a key element in increasing your odds of obtaining a visitor/tourist visa.
Tourist visas are granted for longer than 15 days. Most are for 10 years. This means the holder could ostensibly enter and reenter multiple times in one year.....but cannot legally stay after a continuous 180 days.....except under extraordinary circumstances...illness, etc.
As I indicated in my prior post, timing also plays a crucial role in approvals. How many times have people known someone they thought had a snowballs chance in hell of getting one......only to be approved. And still others who appeared to be a slam dunk are denied. I have seen both cases. It is, along with your documentation, very very subjective. Notwithstanding that, and the embassy will of course deny that they have a quota for tourist visas......but my experiences would suggest otherwise. Therefore knowing WHEN to submit is often times as important as all the other formal criteria.
So to finally answer your question, you should submit any and all documentation, including an LOI, that supports/bolsters your case...... and also recognize the unwritten quotas and the subjective nature of the process.
Respectfully,
Playacaribe2
Letters of invitation for US tourists visas are a waste for time. Unless you´re going to a conference or something, they don´t contribute to your application.
The three times I have taken a person to the US Consulate to solicit a VISA, the person in the window was not interested in any documentation of any sort other than the application that they barely even looked at.
The first time, the applicant asked for a 90 VISA to attend a wedding and they gave her 10 years. The other two (one was my spouse) were declined within 30 seconds.
Take that for what it's worth.
Yes, because there can be many situations that fall outside of the 4 corners of the application and one needs outside (lawyers) to assist.If that wasn't the case we would not need immigration lawyers, we could simply send all application to Windy. God forbid.
As in the case with my SIL...her and her husband have US visas, travel outside the DR frequently. But they were having trouble with the visa for Spain (I think it was with her husband's visa). The lawyer stepped in, and they received their visas. I am not privy to the application or what the lawyer added to it but whatever he did worked. Johne you are 100% correct, not every situation is the same. Sometimes people feel more confident using a lawyer, whether it helps or not. There is no secret conspiracy. The lawyer is just doing what he is being paid to do.
FWIW, a LOI should always be submitted prior to your interview....not at the window.....it is far too late by then.
Respectfully,
Playacaribe2
I am asking why any lawyer could help at all. I have looked just last week at the Schengen Visa Applicaiton process and see nowhere a lawyer could help if the person filling out the application was able to read and write.
I am looking to see any reason at all, that a lawyer could make a difference, other than costing more.
Simple question really,
I am trying to keep people from wasting money. It was implied a lawyer could help. I see NO way a lawyer would matter. I asked why it could matter to use a lawyer.
The on line applicaiton for a Shchengen visa is very straightforward. Have you even looked at it? It is very similar to applying for legal residency minus a few things.
Understood and I acknowledged the same in post 109.
It has however also morphed into a discussion about tourist visas elsewhere.
Respectfully,
Playacaribe2
Yes I have. Read my posts on rejection. Read my posts on applying for Spain. You're out of touch with the subject matter since your release from the hospital. Catch up fast. Carrrrry on.
I'm keeping the reason for using a lawyer a "secret". That make you feel better? BTW some people don't agree with you on the subject of "wasting" money. You still talk down to people Windy. You might have gotton new clothes while away but imo they were cut from the same ole bolt of material.
I agree that they´re not that interested in documents. Most applicants go through their interviews without being asked for documents. Recently, the only clients I´ve had who have been asked to provide their account numbers are teachers.