The United States Embassy Consular section in Santo Domingo has announced changes to the requisites for tourist visas. Only those people who have held five-year entrance visas that have been expired for less than one year will be able to submit their passports for visa renewal. Those under 18 years of age, who have previously held a five-year entrance visa, expired for less than one year, will have to submit both their parents’ passports along with their own. Both parents will also have to have valid five-year entrance visas, otherwise the applicant will have to undergo an interview. Children under 14, who up until now did not have to be interviewed, will have to do so from now on, accompanied by both parents and in possession of the child’s notarized birth certificate and the parents’ passports. If only one parent is able to attend, a notarized letter of consent from the other will have to be submitted. All new visa applicants will have to attend an interview.