Visiting Haiti to renew tourist visa

[drstock]

My friend wants to do a quick visit across the border to renew his visa so that he can open a bank account. I thought I might go with him just to say I've been there. Has anyone any experience of this? Can you just cross the border at Dajabon, have a very quick look around (maybe half an hour) and come back, getting a new stamp?

Before anyone says it, yes, my friend could apply for Residency but he chooses not to for his own reasons and it's none of my business.

 

[william webster]

I recall this being talked about before..... and I'm not sure the Haiti 'turn around' works...... we'll wait & and hear from experience

 

[SKY]

My friend wants to do a quick visit across the border to renew his visa so that he can open a bank account. I thought I might go with him just to say I've been there. Has anyone any experience of this? Can you just cross the border at Dajabon, have a very quick look around (maybe half an hour) and come back, getting a new stamp?

Before anyone says it, yes, my friend could apply for Residency but he chooses not to for his own reasons and it's none of my business.

What makes him think that this even matters. Maybe technically it does but I would wager that in 3 tries even with the same bank it won't matter. Try before you risk your life for nothing.............

 

[Manuel01]

go for a long weekend to colombia with arajet. A little bid more expensive but definetely more fun and it want look so suspicious as a haiti trip for a few hours.

 

[aarhus]

go for a long weekend to colombia with arajet. A little bid more expensive but definetely more fun and it want look so suspicious as a haiti trip for a few hours.

Or Panama.

 

[NanSanPedro]

My friend wants to do a quick visit across the border to renew his visa so that he can open a bank account. I thought I might go with him just to say I've been there. Has anyone any experience of this? Can you just cross the border at Dajabon, have a very quick look around (maybe half an hour) and come back, getting a new stamp?

Before anyone says it, yes, my friend could apply for Residency but he chooses not to for his own reasons and it's none of my business.

I've done it twice but not since 2019. Yes, it counts as an exit and a return. However, both of my trips were into Haiti so it was not a quick turnaround. Both times they reset the clock.

If your friend decides to do this and wants some help, I can hook him up with a Haitian pastor and his wife in Ouanaminthe. I´ve known them for over 15 years. Salt of the earth people.

 

[windeguy]

It was posted by others previously on this forum that going to Haiti and back does not constitute an exit and return to reset your tourist card.
Perhaps that has changed. The risk to your life to do it has gotten considerably higher.

 

[Kipling333]

Great advice from everyone on this subject but my question is whether there is a visa office in Dabajon that could issue a visa so quickly.

 

[windeguy]

Great advice from everyone on this subject but my question is whether there is a visa office in Dabajon that could issue a visa so quickly.

The question was not about getting a visa in Haitia, but getting a new stamp from the DR in your passport upon return so that you can open a bank account in the DR during the 30 day validity of that tourist card country stamp.

 

[NanSanPedro]

In Dajabon, like Pedernales, they have a full up immigration station for passport stamping in and out. I first went thru Dajabon in 2006 and it was functional then, if just a smidge chaotic. I´would guess Jimani has one too, but I´ve never been.

 

[Father Guido]

go for a long weekend to colombia with arajet. A little bid more expensive but definetely more fun and it want look so suspicious as a haiti trip for a few hours.

Colombia or Haiti, hmmmm..............., that's a tough decision, not

 

[drstock]

I've done it twice but not since 2019. Yes, it counts as an exit and a return. However, both of my trips were into Haiti so it was not a quick turnaround. Both times they reset the clock.

If your friend decides to do this and wants some help, I can hook him up with a Haitian pastor and his wife in Ouanaminthe. I´ve known them for over 15 years. Salt of the earth people.

That's the thing. We don't want to stay in Haiti more than a very short while and not stray far from the border itself because we are well aware of the lack of security. I also know some good people in Ouanaminthe so thanks for your offer, but I don't think I will need your pastor friend.

The reason why my friend wants to go to Haiti rather than Colombia or Panama is that I'm going to Dajabon on separate business anyway and he can just have a ride with me.

 

[Manuel01]

This not like going to canada and coming back. More like going to mexico from el paso and try to get back.
It's pure caos !

 

[Kipling333]

The question was not about getting a visa in Haitia, but getting a new stamp from the DR in your passport upon return so that you can open a bank account in the DR during the 30 day validity of that tourist card country stamp.

His friend wishes to renew his visa according to the heading and the original posting . I imagine that needs a little more than just obtaining a stamp at the border but I may be wrong

 

[cavok]

I always thought you had to return to the country you came here from in order to reset your 30 day tourist card. Only tourists from a handful of countries are required to get a tourist visa to enter the DR - Haitians for example.

 

[pinonuevo]

You may have to go to Puerto Rico and Back or US Virgin Island and back if you are a US citizen

 

[SKY]

You may have to go to Puerto Rico and Back or US Virgin Island and back if you are a US citizen

Nonsense. You can come to the DR from ANY country, your passport gives you the Visa. Not where you came from....................

 

[cavok]

Again, if you're coming from the US and many other countries, when you enter, you get a tourist card, not a visa.

 

[SKY]

Again, if you're coming from the US and many other countries, when you enter, you get a tourist card, not a visa.

Yes, and if you are a US citizen coming from Africa you also get a tourist card........... Does not matter where you were, only where your passport is from...............

 

[cavok]

Yes, and if you are a US citizen coming from Africa you also get a tourist card........... Does not matter where you were, only where your passport is from...............

That's correct. Based on the title of this thread, I thought the OP's friend might be Haitian.