Navigating administrative procedures in Dominican Republic

This is one of those very frustrating things we all need to deal with living here.  And as with everything DR-related,  It Depends.  It depends on what you are trying to accomplish, as much as it depends on which area of the country you are trying to do it in.  The procedure in Puerto Plata will be different than Santo Domingo, and different again from Punta Cana.  It depends on who you are, depends on who you know, even depends on which gender you are, sadly.  It depends on who is in the Government office that day, it depends on how close or far away the next election is, it depends on the government officials' political affiliation. 

Nothing is explained online, so you can prepare your documents and have an idea of what the process will be.  If a friend just went through the exact same procedure, and is guiding you, you can guarantee your experience will be different.

Dealing with governments is never easy, but in the DR especially, it is very difficult, and takes way more time and money than it should.  And so many different branches and stamps and payments, and then you still have to go do the same thing in the neighbouring municipality because they somehow claim rights to the same district you're in.

Not to say it can't be done, but you really need to make sure you actually want or need to deal with the government here.  Honestly, Migracion seems to be the only place where noticeable improvements have been made.

Rant done, back to sunshine and paradise for me!! 

@UncleBuck

Spot on. Nothing is consistent here is it   

Ditto from Uncle Buck..basically nailed it!

There may be standard SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) but exactly what was shared all depends who, what, where, day, time

Hence, the reason I am going to hire an immigration lawyer in DR. 

Here you can ask the same.question of 5 so called government clerks and get 5 very different answers, all of them wrong.

Great post Uncle Buck!

@planner

LOL, Nailed it!

@ondami

right, so am I , I haved reached out to Lishali for professional help.