[OlgaBorovikovva]

My understanding is the medical is scheduled AFTER all the required documents are assembled.

And it's only good for 30 days (someone correct me if I'm wrong, please...)

This is how it was done when I got my residency, both, provisional and permanent, many years ago. But who knows, with all this confusion and last minute grace periods at the moment, maybe they let you get started anyway. Again, time to contact HB as suggested.

[LypeReexy]

Asking if I need to bring by my birth certificate before the medical, I got that answer:
"No, es necesario tenerla para depositar el expediente, pero no para el examen médico."

[Fededorbprago]

hi HB, we have just moved to bavaro and my husband and I want to apply for residency asap. can you help. I talk to 3 lawyers and had 3 different answers.? Who is is the best lawyer to handle this expeditiously and inexpensively. thank you.
much appreciated. we would travel to santo domingo if it meant the expert in getting the residency is there.

[OlgaBorovikovva]

If you are in Bavaro, just drop by Guzman Ariza's office in Plaza Palma Real, they seem to be on top of things. The best lawyer who can handle this is probably not the most inexpensive one.

[Fededorbprago]

do i have this clear hillbilly that we do not have to go back to the us to do this. OMG IF IT IS true that would be great.

[Cyzkrahu]

Sorry for the double post. This is a real opportunity if it is possible to take advantage of the 10 day window by initiating the process, but if you need to have all the documents in hand, 10 days would not help the vast majority of those on expired tourist cards. If I had mine, I would have applied a long time ago

Why didn't you get the papers during that time period of "a long Time ago"??

Mike

[pMJWFoAWD]

Why didn't you get the papers during that time period of "a long Time ago"??

Mike

First of all, getting them from here may not even be possible. In addition, like thousands of other people in my position, I was expecting that I could stay and simply pay the fine as I had in the past. My plan was to get the papers on my next scheduled return to the US later this year. Now I will either have to try to obtain them and have them sent or return earlier.

[neirty]

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!

[Abnorbprootly]

do i have this clear hillbilly that we do not have to go back to the us to do this. OMG IF IT IS true that would be great.

I would never presume to answer for HB. I will just say that his post about the time window mentioned this was for people currently in the D.R. on an EXPIRED tourist card. If you just arrived, your card is likely still current.

Of course, Heaven only knows how any of this is going to shake out, or how it will be implemented in actual practice ... So, maybe it would include you too. Good luck with your quest.

[yespkorg]

Regarding CFA's post: Yes you are right. The thing is to GET IT STARTED!! And that is what my friend called me to tell me..It can be done, now, without having to go back to the States or the UK or whereever and starting there!!!

If you want to make it harder and tell people that it can't be done, okay.. but when the doo-doo hits the fan...it's on you for being such a nay-sayer...

HB

[Emapymosy]

Regarding CFA's post: Yes you are right. The thing is to GET IT STARTED!! And that is what my friend called me to tell me..It can be done, now, without having to go back to the States or the UK or whereever and starting there!!!

If you want to make it harder and tell people that it can't be done, okay.. but when the doo-doo hits the fan...it's on you for being such a nay-sayer...

HB

Can you please elaborate on just what "GET IT STARTED" means? Seems rather vague.

[dolaBeetCeage]

Can you please elaborate on just what "GET IT STARTED" means? Seems rather vague.

To get medical exam, that's what it means to "get it started". Medical exam is valid for 12 months, and must have at least 6 months of validity left when depositing the file at DGM. Right now, you cannot get medical done without residency visa. BUT, if you have had medical exam done prior to the regulation effective date, you can still deposit the file and start the residency process (in the current situation).

SO, what HB says to "get it started" IF and WHEN the window of opportunity presents itself, is to go get the medical done!

[johobuo]

Hi, I have been here since November. I have not started the residency process yet. I looked into it before I came, but decided that I should try out living here first before spending so much money on the process. I now have a job here and am concerned that I should be setting the ball rolling. Any advice would be greatly received!

[OlgaBorovikovva]

Hi, I have been here since November. I have not started the residency process yet. I looked into it before I came, but decided that I should try out living here first before spending so much money on the process. I now have a job here and am concerned that I should be setting the ball rolling. Any advice would be greatly received!

Start reading this thread from the beginning and follow the instructions but quickly!

[yespkorg]

InsanelyOne: Look, I can't do it for you, I know Jack about this. It so happens that I have a nice friend in Santo Domingo that was there for me when I renewed my residency and we hit it off. She is smart, dedicated and (important) connected. But she is also a very, very straight shooter. SHE called me with this news about the "window"...since she was working on a couple of cases that I had taken to her.

Look, I do not have to renew my own residency until 2019 if I am still around 'til then...I don't have to take part in any of this. However, this information and this window will help a whole lot of people out there that want to live here,and because of the lenient overstay policies of the (apparent) past, never bothered with residency cards or the whole process. I'll bet if you look back at the last 5 or 8 years of posts on this board, you won't find but one or two threads on the process. (okay, maybe a few more than that...HEHE, but you get the idea that it was never something urgent)

If you want information, PM me, if not, go to your lawyer and tell him/her to remove their fingers and get this going now. Or you can roll the dice and see if there will be a longer extension for this amnesty...never know in this place....


HB

[CuittisIL]

Just for off the phone. She is confident that this "Amnesty" will be announced as soon as next week. The important thing is just to enter the system during this timeframe by getting the medical exam scheduled. To do this, not all documents are needed. At the very least ID is required, but documents like police records can be gathered afterwards.

[Karlmarks]

This poor woman. Answering calls from expats on a Saturday????

SHALENA

[OrefZorremn]

Hopefully the majority of those that apply for provisional or permanent residency intend on being productive members of society not just because it easier and quicker to score here than in their native homelands. Living there is not simple and one needs plenty of patience so I have been told. Throw away your homeland mentality of doing things and start fresh.

[pMJWFoAWD]

This poor woman. Answering calls from expats on a Saturday????

SHALENA

This poor woman is going to be a little less poor (if not rich) thanks to those calls.

[CuittisIL]

This poor woman. Answering calls from expats on a Saturday????SHALENA

Actually, I didn't reach her and she called me back. If anything this will be an official opportunity at DGM that anyone can apply using any lawyer or do it by themselves. This is not some shady backdoor access that you will only get access by using this particular lady.