{"id":118902,"date":"2018-11-21T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T14:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=118902"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T14:57:47","slug":"renew-your-drivers-license-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/21\/renew-your-drivers-license-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Renew your drivers license abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_118891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118891\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118891\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Claudia-Franchesca-and-Miguel-Vargas-MIREX-300x198.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claudia Franchesca de los Santos and Miguel Vargas \/ MIREX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas and director of the National Institute of Transit and Ground Transport (Intrant) Claudia Franchesca de los Santos signed an agreement on 20 November 2018 to allow the renewal of Dominican drivers\u2019 licenses at Dominican consulates around the world. Deputy Minister for Consular and Migratory Affairs Marjorie Espinosa was present for the signing.<\/p>\n<p>There are an estimated two million Dominican expatriates. In a first phase, the program will benefit residents in New York and Miami in the USA, Madrid, Spain and Rome, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through our collaboration with the Intrant, procedures that previously involved high travel expenses and time, will be replaced by processes over the digital platform,&#8221; said Foreign Minister Vargas.<\/p>\n<p>De los Santos announced major changes are underway for the driver\u2019s license system in order to impact road safety in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirex.gob.do\/medios\/noticias\/canciller-miguel-vargas-y-el-intrant-acuerdan-renovacion-de-licencias-de-conducir-en-consulados-dominicanos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry of Foreign Relations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21 November 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas and director of the National Institute of Transit and Ground Transport (Intrant) Claudia Franchesca de los Santos signed an agreement on 20 November 2018 to allow the renewal of Dominican drivers\u2019 licenses at Dominican consulates around the world. Deputy Minister for Consular and Migratory Affairs Marjorie Espinosa was present for the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/11\/21\/renew-your-drivers-license-abroad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}