I'm just wondering what's cheaper, if that's the object. Remaining a resident of Canada, subject to their taxes worldwide just to maintain your slot in their system of socialized medicine (sounds like a slightly "upscale version" of the Dario Contreras Hospital in Santo Domingo), or getting one's legal DR residency, getting Revenue Canada off your back, and paying for a birth here in the DR?
We received better care here in the DR during the birth as the only "customers" for those few days, with 3 or 4 great nurses on-duty in Clinica Abel Gonzalez looking after Mom and child in their "suite". And no airfares back and forth, and the same gyno attending the birth, who was already very familiar with the patient,
Much different than a baby-factory in North America, with one or two harried nurses who have 20 or 30 or 40 to look after at once, and a shared room, and the ever-present nudge from the accounting department to hit the road the next day because the insurance folks are calling them every 4 hours to do so....
Legal residence in another country ends Revenue Canada's interest. Plus, for whatever it's worth, your kid picks up dual nationality.
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