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**neirty** · 07-07-2012, 03:51 PM

An extra 10 days may be nice if you were almost ready to submit your application, but I went through the process a couple of months ago - and I don't think one could start from zero today and have an application ready in a week or two. Why not? Among the required documents to submit in order to get the blood test and x-ray....

Required: Original birth certificate duly Apostilled. For me, this meant requesting a new birth certificate with "pen in hand" signature from my state of birth (the copy I had without original blue ink signature could not be Apostilled). Once that was received, sending it back to another government department to be Apostilled. Then sending it by mail to me in the DR. Total time - 45 days. (note, procedure for Apostille varies depending on where you were born)

A recent Apostilled Certificate of No Criminal Records issued by the country where you have resided for the last 5 years. This entailed going by person to a police department in the U.S. (they wouldn't let me request one by email), then getting the document notarized (required by the state to do the Apostille), sending it to the State for the Apostille, having them return it because it wasn't notarized properly, getting another certificate of good conduct, notarizing correctly, sending for the Apostille and waiting for it to arrive in DR. Total time - 60 days.
Note: perhaps the good conduct certificate where resided for the last 5 years can be obtained in DR depending on how long you've been here.

Anyhow, just saying... if you were ready to submit your documents and hadn't for some reason - this is good news.
If you haven't already started getting your documents together, I doubt 10 days will be sufficient without some other leniency on required documents from the migration department.

OH... and from the day I took the blood test/x-ray at Migration... it took 7 days for them to get the results back to me, before the final package of documents could be presented for residency... and they weren't inundated at that time with a bunch of medical tests from procrastinating expats!

07-07-2012, 03:51 PM	#28
neirty Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 615 Senior Member	An extra 10 days may be nice if you were almost ready to submit your application, but I went through the process a couple of months ago - and I don't think one could start from zero today and have an application ready in a week or two. Why not? Among the required documents to submit in order to get the blood test and x-ray.... Required: Original birth certificate duly Apostilled. For me, this meant requesting a new birth certificate with "pen in hand" signature from my state of birth (the copy I had without original blue ink signature could not be Apostilled). Once that was received, sending it back to another government department to be Apostilled. Then sending it by mail to me in the DR. Total time - 45 days. (note, procedure for Apostille varies depending on where you were born) A recent Apostilled Certificate of No Criminal Records issued by the country where you have resided for the last 5 years. This entailed going by person to a police department in the U.S. (they wouldn't let me request one by email), then getting the document notarized (required by the state to do the Apostille), sending it to the State for the Apostille, having them return it because it wasn't notarized properly, getting another certificate of good conduct, notarizing correctly, sending for the Apostille and waiting for it to arrive in DR. Total time - 60 days. Note: perhaps the good conduct certificate where resided for the last 5 years can be obtained in DR depending on how long you've been here. Anyhow, just saying... if you were ready to submit your documents and hadn't for some reason - this is good news. If you haven't already started getting your documents together, I doubt 10 days will be sufficient without some other leniency on required documents from the migration department. OH... and from the day I took the blood test/x-ray at Migration... it took 7 days for them to get the results back to me, before the final package of documents could be presented for residency... and they weren't inundated at that time with a bunch of medical tests from procrastinating expats!
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