The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has announced that Dominicans residing abroad will have to pay more for documents issued by the JCE — Act No. 10/2018 dated 16 July 2018. Identity cards will now cost between US$50 and US$80 and a duplicate identity card, that in the past was free, is now US$15.
Certificates that were US$10 and will now be US$20, and before postage was free and it will now be US$15. Registration of births, previously free, is now US$25 as will be the registration of deaths.
Certain processes remain free such as registering to vote overseas, looking for certificates in the archives and corrections with resolutions.
Local Dominican community activists including Emmanuel Flores, Julio César Tiburcio, Claudio Liberato, Iván Rosario Peña and Juana Melania Rodríguez, urged Dominicans living abroad to call the JCE in the Dominican Republic to voice their opposition to these increases.
The number to call is 809539-5419.
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17 July 2018
