Stay after a tourist visa has expired

First a tourist visa is 30 days, not 90.

Landlords don't care as long as you pay.

Bank account must be opened while you are legal, in the first 30 days. 

Yes you can buy a car.  As soon as your status is illegal you will be driving illegally.

Risk of expulsion is low.

The risk is leaving and being blocked for re entry.

Many thanks Darlene.
Sounds acceptable to me.

Thomas - while I have no evidence that it's being enforced, this article from January states that there will be fines for those who employ or provide housing to illegals and that vehicles used to transport illegals can be seized.

https://noticiassin.com/pais/migracion- … is-1058136

OK, thanks for the information DD.

Thomas....

Your tourist card is valid for 30 days....
you can extend that by 90 more days - online

Why not look into residency if you plan on staying?

Lots of info here on extensions & residency if you want to study it

Hi Willie,
thanks for your advise. Meanwhile I was informed by two reliable experts out of this forum about the possibilities I have.
Looks like authorities will only grant me an investor's visa. I would have to leave the country every second month and claim / pay again.
Let me say it in my words:
I feel like, they do not deny my money, but they keep me at a very, very short leash and ask me to pay for claims on a regular base.

I will come over anyway.
But I can spend my money in an other way but for THAT artificial formalism they want to lead me to.   

@Willie
Instead of investing my money in applications for authorities and flights for compulsory leave, I would rather spend it on inviting one or the other to a cold drink to thank you for the great support here in the forum.
Wouldnt you prefer that too? 

Artificial formalism.  A new way to describe immigration laws and regulations, eh?

Me? I prefer to be legal where I live.  I know, that is just me.

Nothing artificial about a govt setting it's rules in place

After the 90 days extension expired, what can you do to keep your status legal?

tbarnard7378 wrote:

After the 90 days extension expired, what can you do to keep your status legal?

1) Go home and start the residency process at the closest Dominican Embassy:
https://migracion.gob.do/en/servicios/residence/

2) Leave the island and re-enter to restart the clock to get up to another 120 days via the extension process.

Can be Haiti for restart 90 days visa?
I go 1 day Haiti and other day back?
I can stay other 90 days in RD?
Someone can give me good advice
How spend at least 6 month in RD
With no residency? ?

I have seen it both ways. Some have stated that going to Haiti does not "reset" the clock, others have stated it does.

With what it is going on in Haiti right now, I would not spend one minute in Haiti.

A lawyer needs to respond if going to Haiti will work regarding resetting a tourist card and allowing you to extend it again to a maximum of 120 days.

Just  go to Puerto Rico on the ferry,  much safer to do.

I asked our resident lawyer, Lishali.

IF we are discussing a tourist card and or the extension of the tourist  card - a trip over the boarder to Haiti DOES reset the clock as long as it is a  new date on the re entry stamp.  So you cannot  exit and re enter on the same  DATE.

IF we are discussing a tourist VISA with one entry that is a whole other animal.  It is not reset by a visit to Haiti or any other country.

Oh thanks for info
So Haiti not count?

Tomyroni wrote:

Oh thanks for info
So Haiti not count?

What country is your passport from?  Is it a tourist card country is the relevant point here.

If it is from a tourist card country and you get a stamp with a different date than you exit, then you can do the 30 day tourist card and 90 extension over again. 

The need to stay overnight also explains the conflicting responses I had heard before about resetting the tourist card clock.  Some people just wanted to go into Haiti and come right back the same day and that does not reset the clock. The bad news is you have to spend a day in Haiti to reset the tourist card.

Exactly Windeguy

My passport is Poland origin
Residency proces take to long
Because we don't have embassy RD
In Poland and Poland in RD
Is a big problem

After reentering DR, how complicated is the process to get a tourist card extended from 30 to 120 days and what does it cost? Is it possible to do it by internet?

It's all done by internet.  You have to upload to the govt site your info and return flights to get another extension.  I don't have the site at hand but someone will post it again.

Tomyroni this thread is about extensions for tourists.

To talk about residency please do so in the residency thread. It keeps  things organized and is less confusing.

Tomyroni, I think Poland is a tourist card country as being affiliated with the EU more or less, so you can probably do the overnight trip to Haiti to reset the tourist card and then extend it online an additional 90 days for a total of 120 days repeatedly. 

Planner, I think that was what he was looking for as an answer because some countries have no easy access to an embassy for residency and he was looking for an option to be legally in the DR.

I read it clearly he said residency process takes too long. 

If he talking about tourist card or tourist visa cool .

If he or anyone wants to talk residency it's got it's own thread

Thanks planner.