Visa – Santo Domingo

Description

Many countries are exempted from the visa requirement when travelling to the Dominican Republic. In other cases, there is a tourist card valid for short stays (up to 30 days), that can only be used once.

Tourists who want to extend this 30-day period must pay a fee – the amount of which varies depending on the extension of the period – to the Dirección General de Migración or at the immigration office when leaving the country.

If you wish to live and work in the Dominican Republic, you must obtain a long-term visa before arrival.

If you are a Spanish citizen wishing to work and live in the Dominican Republic, you have to apply for a temporary residence authorization in accordance with the Dominican law.

Once the residence visa has been granted, you need to arrive in the Dominican Republic and apply for the corresponding residence authorization.

Steps to follow:

REQUIREMENTS:

– Being a Spanish national

– Having legally entered the country

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED:

⦁ Medical exam authorized by the Department of Immigration (Dirección General de Migración)

⦁ Copy of you Temporary Residence Card (RS).

⦁ Completed Temporary Residence Form

⦁ Homologated birth certificate .

⦁ Certificate of absence of criminal records issued by the corresponding authority of the country in which you have been living for the last 5 years.

⦁ Six recent photographs of your face and six of your right profile.

⦁ Passport or travel document recognized as such with at least 18 remaining months of validity.

⦁ Marriage certificate, certificate of celibacy or proof of cohabitation – where appropriate – duly homologated.

⦁ If you are about to be hired as an employee by your spouse, you must provide documents proving this circumstance.

⦁ If you are hiring your minor children as employees, you must provide documents proving this circumstance.

⦁ Health insurance signed with an insurance company authorized by the Dirección General de Migración.

⦁ Doctor’s receipt following a visit at the Immigration Department of the Dirección General de Migración.

⦁ Payment receipt of the service.

⦁ It is also necessary to undergo an informal interview at the time of taking fingerprints and signature.

• These documents must be filed at the Dirección General de Migración.

If you have already obtained a temporary visa for residence and work, once you arrive in the Dominican Republic you need to apply for the corresponding temporary residence permit for work purposes that meets the same requirements of the above case, and you shall also replace the residence visa with a visa de negocios múltiples and present a valid work contract registered by the Ministry of Labor.

TYPES OF VISA:

⦁ Tourist Visa

⦁ Student visa

⦁ Business Visa

⦁ Work visa

⦁ Residence visa

⦁ Diplomatic Visa / Official Courtesy Visa

⦁ Visa for Family Reunification

Contact our immigration lawyers for assistance, we have partner offices in Madrid and Santo Domingo.

What’s included:

Our immigration lawyers will help you to carry out the procedures for obtaining your visa, offering a complete quality service tailored to your needs.

We can facilitate the processing of your visa and residence application in the Dominican Republic. Our appointments are managed quickly, as we work with licensed attorneys both in Spain and in the Dominican Republic.

Make sure you set an appointment in time, in order to avoid delays in your application.

Our immigration lawyers will give you:

• Full assistance on the procedure, up to its resolution
• The request for the necessary documentation
• The preparation of the forms to fill in
• The submission of the application
• Constant attention to the dossier and its development

What’s not included:

We do not provide assistance at the Spanish Consulates in the applicant’s country of origin. We provide personal assistance in our offices in Madrid, Barcelona and Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic.

In all other cases, we can offer professional legal advice online.