2005News

Visas not required of all

The Ministry of Foreign Relations explained that only citizens of
Argentina, Chile, South Korea, Ecuador, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Peru,
Liechtenstein, and Uruguay, may enter the DR without a visa nor a
tourist card, as reported in Diario Libre. Deputy Minister of
Consular Affairs, Rosario Graciano, said that agreements have been
signed with the DR that establishes that Dominicans don’t require
visas to travel those countries either. Twenty-five other countries
don’t require visas for their citizens traveling with diplomatic,
official or service passports. Among these are Brazil, Costa Rica, El
Salvador, Italy, Israel, Japan, Panama and Switzerland. DR only
requires a tourist card from citizens of Germany, Australia, Austria,
Czech Republic, Spain, US, France, the United Kingdom, and 44 other
countries.