Entering the Dominican Republic as a Tourist
Three different Dominican authorities publish three different lengths for the same holiday. The migration law and its regulation both say sixty days, and the regulation says it in a single sentence that admits of no reading but one. The tax agency that sells the tourist card says thirty. The migration service, taking the thirty as its starting point, sells extensions in bands that run to a hundred and twenty days in total. Nobody has reconciled them, so a traveller plans around the smaller number and pays to get back to the larger one. The card itself costs ten dollars, is good for one entry, and since April 2018 has been built into the price of air tickets issued outside the country, which is why most arrivals never see it charged.
At a glance
- Maximum tourist stay in the regulation
- 60 days
The migration law allows up to sixty days, extendable, and the 2011 regulation states sixty as the maximum outright.
- Stay the tourist card allows
- 30 days
On the tax agency’s own tourist-card page. It is what the tax agency that collects the card publishes. It is half what the regulation says, and neither document mentions the other.
- Longest stay obtainable by extension
- 120 days
The migration service sells extensions in two bands and stops at 120, which is also where the regulation stops: sixty days plus one sixty-day extension.
- Tourist card cost
- US$10.00
- Tourist card validity
- One entry
- Included in the air fare since
- 25 April 2018as of 2018-04-25
Only on tickets with a point of sale outside the Dominican Republic. Arrivals by land or sea still buy it.
- Extension of 30 to 90 days
- RD$3,500.00
The migration service's published tariff. It charges for the days, not for the application, which is free.
- Extension of 90 to 120 days
- RD$5,600.00
- Work on a tourist card
- Forfeits the card
The tourist-card law makes paid activity a ground for immediate expulsion, and the tax agency repeats it.
- Overstaying
- Makes the stay illegal
The migration law says so in terms: a lawful temporary entry that outlasts its permission becomes illegal.
Requirements
- A passport valid for at least six months
- A return or onward ticket by air, sea or land
- An address in the Dominican Republic
- Proof of funds sufficient to cover the stay
- A tourist card, unless your nationality needs a consular visa instead; it is included in air tickets issued outside the country and otherwise bought at a tax-agency point of sale
- An electronic entry and exit form, which the migration service operates as a separate requirement from the card
- Departure within the authorised period, or an extension bought before it runs out
How the process runs
- Step 1
Check whether your nationality may use the tourist card at all
Dirección General de Impuestos Internos
The tax agency publishes the list of nationalities that must obtain a consular visa instead. The card covers everyone else.
- Step 2
Arrive with the card, usually already paid
Point of entry
On an air ticket issued outside the country the ten dollars is in the fare. Arriving by land or sea, it is bought at a tax-agency point of sale at the crossing.
- Step 3
Apply online before the stay runs out
Dirección General de Migración
The extension is applied for on the migration service's own portal with the passport page, the entry stamp, a return ticket, proof of means and a medical certificate.
- Step 4
Pay for the days, not for the request
Dirección General de Migración
The application is free; the charge is the tariff for the band of days granted, paid online or at the airport.
In detail
Which number to plan around
Plan around thirty days and treat anything more as something you buy. The sixty days in the regulation is the better law, but it is not the number either counter uses: the tourist card is issued for thirty, and the migration service's extension page is written on the assumption that thirty is what a tourist has. The gap is not a rounding error and it is not a rule that changed - the 2011 regulation is still the regulation, and the agencies simply operate something else. A traveller who argues the regulation at an airport desk is arguing with the wrong person.
Working while you are here
The tourist card is a tax receipt with a condition attached, and the condition is that you are not earning. The statute does not say the stay is cancelled; it says the right to the card is lost and the misuse is punished by immediate expulsion without formality. That wording is unusually blunt by the standards of this region, and it has survived every reprint of the law since 1967. There is no remote-work category in Dominican migration law to fall back on - the temporary residence subcategories are a closed list, and none of them is one.
Country-level policy
The authentic text of a Dominican law or decree is the one printed in the Gaceta Oficial, and the Gaceta is published by the Consultoría Jurídica del Poder Ejecutivo - the legal office of the presidency, whose head signs the gazette as its administrative director. The Constitution promulgated in 2024 closes with that officer certifying that the publication is official. The Consultoría also runs the public register of laws and decrees, and serves each instrument as the pages of the gazette issue it appeared in. That is the good news. The bad news is physical: issues from before roughly 2012 are page images carrying a recognition so poor that words like "año" come out as "aiio" and "los" as "10s", and some issues from 2010 and 2011 carry a broken font encoding that turns "República" into "Repflblica". For those instruments the authentic text exists and cannot be quoted from, and what is quotable is a transcription published by a ministry or an agency.
In most countries a migration category decides what you may do. In the Dominican Republic it also decides something about your children. The Constitution excludes from birthright nationality the children of foreigners in transit or residing illegally, and then sends the meaning of "in transit" out to ordinary legislation. Ordinary legislation has answered twice. The migration law of 2004 ends its list of non-resident categories by declaring that non-residents are persons in transit for the purposes of the constitutional article - which puts tourists, business visitors, seasonal workers, border habitants and students in the same box. The regulation of 2011 goes further and treats as in transit anyone who resides, or has resided, without a lawful migration status. Reading a Dominican residence category is therefore never only about the permit.
Three of the numbers a reader most wants from this country are published twice, differently, by the Dominican state. A tourist stay is sixty days in the migration regulation and thirty on the tax agency's tourist-card page. The wait for permanent residence is five years of temporary residence in the regulation and "one year of residence" in the first paragraph of the migration service's own page - which then, four lines later, asks for the first card plus four renewals. And the famous forty-five-day residence for pensioners and investors is forty-five days in a recital of the 2007 statute and forty-five working days in the article that actually sets the deadline, with the regulation starting the clock later still. None of these is a rule that changed. They are the same rules written twice.
Exceptions by origin
The Border-Habitant Card: One Day, One Province, Haitians Only
Dominican migration law has one category written for a single nationality, and the regulation says so outright. A Haitian living in the strip of Haiti opposite Pedernales, Independencia, Elías Piña, Dajabón or Montecristi can be issued a border-habitant card by the migration service and cross into the matching Dominican province to trade on a small scale. The card is valid for a year and renewable; the stay it allows is one day, between the opening and closing of the border as the two countries agree it. Employment is not permitted - the statute describes the holder as carrying on non-labour activities - and going outside the matching province makes the holder illegal, cancels the card and triggers an order to leave. It is also the reason the tourist card is not charged to these travellers: the tax agency lists them among those exempt from it.
- Residence in the area of Haiti bordering one of the five named Dominican provinces
- An official identity document valid in the country of origin with at least a year to run
- A border-habitant card from the migration service, issued after vetting and a biometric record
- Activity limited to small-scale trade, and to the province matching the holder's Haitian place of residence
- Return to Haiti the same day, within the agreed border hours
A Sixty-Day Extension Open Only to Venezuelans Who Arrived Between 2014 and 2020
The migration service runs a stay extension that exists for one nationality and one arrival window. It is open to Venezuelans who entered the Dominican Republic regularly between January 2014 and March 2020, and to their minor children whether or not born here, and it grants sixty days. Each person applies separately, online, with the passport data page, the stamp of the last departure from Venezuela where applicable, the stamp of the last entry here, a Dominican visa where one was issued, and a current criminal-record certificate from the public prosecutor. The service publishes no fee for it and says a decision takes ninety days after the papers are accepted - longer than the permission it grants.
- Venezuelan nationality, and a regular entry to the Dominican Republic between January 2014 and March 2020
- A completed application form, submitted individually rather than as a family
- The passport data page, the stamp of the last exit from the country of origin where applicable, and the stamp of the last entry here
- A Dominican visa where one was issued
- A current criminal-record certificate from the Procuraduría General de la República
- Two recent 2x2 photographs, one frontal and one right profile, on a white background
What the law says
«La permanencia máxima del Turista extranjero en la República Dominicana, es de sesenta (60) días.»Our translation - not official
The maximum stay of a foreign Tourist in the Dominican Republic is sixty (60) days.
The regulation states the ceiling flatly. Nothing in it mentions thirty days.
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The ministry migration sits under, and the body that receives naturalisation applications for the executive. Its marco legal library publishes clean digital transcriptions of instruments whose gazette originals are unreadable - most importantly Decreto 631-11, the Reglamento de Aplicación of the migration law, which is complete at all 144 articles and is the source of every Dominican residence threshold and period quoted here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It publishes transcriptions, not the authentic text; where it and the Gaceta Oficial differ, the gazette is the law. Its own copy of Ley 285-04 is the gazette scan rather than a transcription and is unusable. It states no date on which any of its files was prepared, so there is nothing on their face to say what they are current to.
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«1. Pasaporte con vigencia mínima de seis (6) meses. 2. Boleto aéreo, marítimo o terrestre de ingreso y regreso; 3. Una dirección en la República Dominicana; y 4. Prueba de solvencia económica suficiente para cubrir sus gastos durante su estancia en la República Dominicana.»Our translation - not official
1. Passport with a minimum validity of six (6) months. 2. Air, sea or land ticket in and out; 3. An address in the Dominican Republic; and 4. Proof of means sufficient to cover expenses during the stay in the Dominican Republic.
The entry conditions for a tourist, in the regulation rather than on a service page.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The ministry migration sits under, and the body that receives naturalisation applications for the executive. Its marco legal library publishes clean digital transcriptions of instruments whose gazette originals are unreadable - most importantly Decreto 631-11, the Reglamento de Aplicación of the migration law, which is complete at all 144 articles and is the source of every Dominican residence threshold and period quoted here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It publishes transcriptions, not the authentic text; where it and the Gaceta Oficial differ, the gazette is the law. Its own copy of Ley 285-04 is the gazette scan rather than a transcription and is unusable. It states no date on which any of its files was prepared, so there is nothing on their face to say what they are current to.
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«De hasta 60 días, prorrogables para las personas comprendidas en los incisos 1, 2 y 7 del Artículo 36.»Our translation - not official
Up to 60 days, extendable, for the persons covered by paragraphs 1, 2 and 7 of Article 36.
Paragraph 1 of article 36 is tourists, paragraph 2 business visitors, paragraph 7 sports, artistic and academic groups. The same sixty days covers all three.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The tax authority, and the best-organised law library in the Dominican state: a classified collection of digital transcriptions covering the tax code and its amending statutes, incentive laws, institutional laws and others of interest. It is also the body that collects the tourist card, and its tourist-card page is the only published source for the card's price, the thirty-day stay and the list of nationalities that need a consular visa instead.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Its compilation of the Código Tributario carries amendments only to Ley 253-12 of 2012, says so nowhere on its face, and has at least one numbering defect - two different articles both printed as 134. It therefore still prints the pre-2026 text of article 269, which Ley 30-26 replaced in June 2026. Some of its files are recognitions of scans rather than transcriptions - its copy of Ley 155-17 reads "finaneiamiento" for "financiamiento" - so each file has to be judged on its own before being quoted. Its tourist-card page contradicts the migration regulation on the length of a tourist stay.
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«Turistas, entendiendo por tales a los extranjeros que ingresan al país con fines de recreo, esparcimiento, descanso o diversión, contando con recursos suficientes para ello.»Our translation - not official
Tourists, meaning foreigners who enter the country for recreation, leisure, rest or amusement, having sufficient resources for it.
About this source
The tax authority, and the best-organised law library in the Dominican state: a classified collection of digital transcriptions covering the tax code and its amending statutes, incentive laws, institutional laws and others of interest. It is also the body that collects the tourist card, and its tourist-card page is the only published source for the card's price, the thirty-day stay and the list of nationalities that need a consular visa instead.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Its compilation of the Código Tributario carries amendments only to Ley 253-12 of 2012, says so nowhere on its face, and has at least one numbering defect - two different articles both printed as 134. It therefore still prints the pre-2026 text of article 269, which Ley 30-26 replaced in June 2026. Some of its files are recognitions of scans rather than transcriptions - its copy of Ley 155-17 reads "finaneiamiento" for "financiamiento" - so each file has to be judged on its own before being quoted. Its tourist-card page contradicts the migration regulation on the length of a tourist stay.
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«Se autoriza el uso de una tarjeta de turismo, con la cual se podrá ingresar al territorio nacional, con fines turísticos, sin necesidad de visa consular.»Our translation - not official
The use of a tourist card is authorised, with which one may enter the national territory for tourist purposes without the need for a consular visa.
About this source
The tax authority, and the best-organised law library in the Dominican state: a classified collection of digital transcriptions covering the tax code and its amending statutes, incentive laws, institutional laws and others of interest. It is also the body that collects the tourist card, and its tourist-card page is the only published source for the card's price, the thirty-day stay and the list of nationalities that need a consular visa instead.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Its compilation of the Código Tributario carries amendments only to Ley 253-12 of 2012, says so nowhere on its face, and has at least one numbering defect - two different articles both printed as 134. It therefore still prints the pre-2026 text of article 269, which Ley 30-26 replaced in June 2026. Some of its files are recognitions of scans rather than transcriptions - its copy of Ley 155-17 reads "finaneiamiento" for "financiamiento" - so each file has to be judged on its own before being quoted. Its tourist-card page contradicts the migration regulation on the length of a tourist stay.
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«Se fija en 15 días el tiempo que un turista puede permanecer en el país cuando haya ingresado con esta tarjeta.»Our translation - not official
The time a tourist may remain in the country when he has entered with this card is fixed at 15 days.
The card's own statute says fifteen days and prices the card at two pesos. The agency that sells it today says thirty days and ten dollars. We could find no instrument amending either figure, and we do not claim one does not exist.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The tax authority, and the best-organised law library in the Dominican state: a classified collection of digital transcriptions covering the tax code and its amending statutes, incentive laws, institutional laws and others of interest. It is also the body that collects the tourist card, and its tourist-card page is the only published source for the card's price, the thirty-day stay and the list of nationalities that need a consular visa instead.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Its compilation of the Código Tributario carries amendments only to Ley 253-12 of 2012, says so nowhere on its face, and has at least one numbering defect - two different articles both printed as 134. It therefore still prints the pre-2026 text of article 269, which Ley 30-26 replaced in June 2026. Some of its files are recognitions of scans rather than transcriptions - its copy of Ley 155-17 reads "finaneiamiento" for "financiamiento" - so each file has to be judged on its own before being quoted. Its tourist-card page contradicts the migration regulation on the length of a tourist stay.
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«El derecho a esta tarjeta de turismo se pierde por dedicarse el beneficiario a actividades lucrativas en el territorio nacional y el uso indebido de la misma será sancionado por las autoridades nacionales de migración con su expulsión inmediata del país sin formalidad alguna.»Our translation - not official
The right to this tourist card is lost by the holder engaging in gainful activities in the national territory, and its improper use shall be punished by the national migration authorities with immediate expulsion from the country without any formality.
About this source
The tax authority, and the best-organised law library in the Dominican state: a classified collection of digital transcriptions covering the tax code and its amending statutes, incentive laws, institutional laws and others of interest. It is also the body that collects the tourist card, and its tourist-card page is the only published source for the card's price, the thirty-day stay and the list of nationalities that need a consular visa instead.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Its compilation of the Código Tributario carries amendments only to Ley 253-12 of 2012, says so nowhere on its face, and has at least one numbering defect - two different articles both printed as 134. It therefore still prints the pre-2026 text of article 269, which Ley 30-26 replaced in June 2026. Some of its files are recognitions of scans rather than transcriptions - its copy of Ley 155-17 reads "finaneiamiento" for "financiamiento" - so each file has to be judged on its own before being quoted. Its tourist-card page contradicts the migration regulation on the length of a tourist stay.
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«El Extranjero admitido como No Residente que manifieste interés de prorrogar el plazo de permanencia, debe dirigir su solicitud motivada a la D.G.M. sin que, en ningún caso, pueda solicitarse más de una prórroga.»Our translation - not official
A Foreigner admitted as a Non-Resident who expresses an interest in extending the period of stay must address a reasoned application to the D.G.M., it being impossible in any case to apply for more than one extension.
One extension, once. There is no second bite.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The ministry migration sits under, and the body that receives naturalisation applications for the executive. Its marco legal library publishes clean digital transcriptions of instruments whose gazette originals are unreadable - most importantly Decreto 631-11, the Reglamento de Aplicación of the migration law, which is complete at all 144 articles and is the source of every Dominican residence threshold and period quoted here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It publishes transcriptions, not the authentic text; where it and the Gaceta Oficial differ, the gazette is the law. Its own copy of Ley 285-04 is the gazette scan rather than a transcription and is unusable. It states no date on which any of its files was prepared, so there is nothing on their face to say what they are current to.
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«En caso de ser aprobada la prórroga, la D.G.M. sólo podrá conceder una prórroga de permanencia por sesenta (60) días.»Our translation - not official
If the extension is approved, the D.G.M. may grant only one extension of stay, of sixty (60) days.
Sixty plus sixty is a hundred and twenty, which is exactly where the migration service's extension tariff stops - so the ceiling agrees with the regulation even though the starting point does not.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The ministry migration sits under, and the body that receives naturalisation applications for the executive. Its marco legal library publishes clean digital transcriptions of instruments whose gazette originals are unreadable - most importantly Decreto 631-11, the Reglamento de Aplicación of the migration law, which is complete at all 144 articles and is the source of every Dominican residence threshold and period quoted here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It publishes transcriptions, not the authentic text; where it and the Gaceta Oficial differ, the gazette is the law. Its own copy of Ley 285-04 is the gazette scan rather than a transcription and is unusable. It states no date on which any of its files was prepared, so there is nothing on their face to say what they are current to.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
«El que haya ingresado bajo alguna condición legal temporal y haya extralimitado su permanencia, será considerado como Ilegal.»Our translation - not official
Whoever has entered under some lawful temporary condition and has exceeded his stay shall be considered Illegal.
The consequence of an overstay is a change of status, not only a charge. The extension tariff is what the agency sells; this is what the law says happens if it is not bought.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The tax authority, and the best-organised law library in the Dominican state: a classified collection of digital transcriptions covering the tax code and its amending statutes, incentive laws, institutional laws and others of interest. It is also the body that collects the tourist card, and its tourist-card page is the only published source for the card's price, the thirty-day stay and the list of nationalities that need a consular visa instead.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Its compilation of the Código Tributario carries amendments only to Ley 253-12 of 2012, says so nowhere on its face, and has at least one numbering defect - two different articles both printed as 134. It therefore still prints the pre-2026 text of article 269, which Ley 30-26 replaced in June 2026. Some of its files are recognitions of scans rather than transcriptions - its copy of Ley 155-17 reads "finaneiamiento" for "financiamiento" - so each file has to be judged on its own before being quoted. Its tourist-card page contradicts the migration regulation on the length of a tourist stay.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
Practical notes
The thirty-day figure comes from the Dirección General de Impuestos Internos, which collects the tourist card, and the sixty-day figure from the regulation the migration service applies. We quote both rather than choosing, because both are published by the Dominican state and neither cites the other.
We did not read the instrument that raised the card from two pesos to ten dollars, nor the one that moved the stay from fifteen days to thirty. The figures in force are the agency's; the figures in the 1967 statute are the statute's.
The electronic entry and exit form is operated by the migration service and is separate from the card. We did not find an instrument creating it and do not state a fee for it.
The nationalities that need a consular visa are published by the tax agency as a list rather than a table, and it names more than seventy countries. We have not reproduced it here because a list of that kind is only worth publishing if it is re-read on a schedule.
- administersDecreto No. 631-11, Reglamento de Aplicación de la Ley General de Migración No. 285-04
Ministerio de Interior y Policía
About this source
The ministry migration sits under, and the body that receives naturalisation applications for the executive. Its marco legal library publishes clean digital transcriptions of instruments whose gazette originals are unreadable - most importantly Decreto 631-11, the Reglamento de Aplicación of the migration law, which is complete at all 144 articles and is the source of every Dominican residence threshold and period quoted here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It publishes transcriptions, not the authentic text; where it and the Gaceta Oficial differ, the gazette is the law. Its own copy of Ley 285-04 is the gazette scan rather than a transcription and is unusable. It states no date on which any of its files was prepared, so there is nothing on their face to say what they are current to.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
- administersLey General de Migración No. 285-04, digital transcription published by the Dirección General de Impuestos Internos
Dirección General de Impuestos Internos
About this source
The tax authority, and the best-organised law library in the Dominican state: a classified collection of digital transcriptions covering the tax code and its amending statutes, incentive laws, institutional laws and others of interest. It is also the body that collects the tourist card, and its tourist-card page is the only published source for the card's price, the thirty-day stay and the list of nationalities that need a consular visa instead.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Its compilation of the Código Tributario carries amendments only to Ley 253-12 of 2012, says so nowhere on its face, and has at least one numbering defect - two different articles both printed as 134. It therefore still prints the pre-2026 text of article 269, which Ley 30-26 replaced in June 2026. Some of its files are recognitions of scans rather than transcriptions - its copy of Ley 155-17 reads "finaneiamiento" for "financiamiento" - so each file has to be judged on its own before being quoted. Its tourist-card page contradicts the migration regulation on the length of a tourist stay.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
- administersLey No. 199-67, que autoriza el uso de Tarjeta de Turismo
Dirección General de Impuestos Internos
About this source
The tax authority, and the best-organised law library in the Dominican state: a classified collection of digital transcriptions covering the tax code and its amending statutes, incentive laws, institutional laws and others of interest. It is also the body that collects the tourist card, and its tourist-card page is the only published source for the card's price, the thirty-day stay and the list of nationalities that need a consular visa instead.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Its compilation of the Código Tributario carries amendments only to Ley 253-12 of 2012, says so nowhere on its face, and has at least one numbering defect - two different articles both printed as 134. It therefore still prints the pre-2026 text of article 269, which Ley 30-26 replaced in June 2026. Some of its files are recognitions of scans rather than transcriptions - its copy of Ley 155-17 reads "finaneiamiento" for "financiamiento" - so each file has to be judged on its own before being quoted. Its tourist-card page contradicts the migration regulation on the length of a tourist stay.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
- administersSobre Tarjeta de Turista
Dirección General de Impuestos Internos
About this source
The tax authority, and the best-organised law library in the Dominican state: a classified collection of digital transcriptions covering the tax code and its amending statutes, incentive laws, institutional laws and others of interest. It is also the body that collects the tourist card, and its tourist-card page is the only published source for the card's price, the thirty-day stay and the list of nationalities that need a consular visa instead.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Its compilation of the Código Tributario carries amendments only to Ley 253-12 of 2012, says so nowhere on its face, and has at least one numbering defect - two different articles both printed as 134. It therefore still prints the pre-2026 text of article 269, which Ley 30-26 replaced in June 2026. Some of its files are recognitions of scans rather than transcriptions - its copy of Ley 155-17 reads "finaneiamiento" for "financiamiento" - so each file has to be judged on its own before being quoted. Its tourist-card page contradicts the migration regulation on the length of a tourist stay.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
- administersPrórroga de estadía para turistas
Dirección General de Migración
About this source
The migration service. It runs residence, non-resident permits, extensions and the certificates naturalisation applicants need, and publishes a service page for each with requirements, price and turnaround. Those pages are the only published source for Dominican migration fees, because the fee decree article 140 of the migration law contemplates was not found.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Its pages contradict the regulation it applies and sometimes themselves: the permanent-residence page says one year of residence in its description and five years' worth of cards in its eligibility list. It cannot be cited for the law - only for what the counter does. Its site is behind a challenge that refuses an ordinary client; the extraction service gets through and a direct request does not.
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