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Originally Posted by J D Sauser
I just called a lawyer and asked him to check if we could get a driver license for a Swiss National without a cedula (no residency permits whatsoever). He just called me back and told me that he had called "the office" in Santiago as well as the one in Santo Domingo and the one needed to have a cedula in order to get a driver license.
I am not inclined to take that as a definite no, because I don't trust the power of asking and especially not by phone.
I told him that the law said otherwise. He thought that it may but that these secretarias had poder reglementaria... which effectively would allow to do as they see fit? I don't buy that yet either.
Anyway. I am herewith offering USD 200.oo + taxes, fees and costs to whom ever will help me to effectively get a LEGAL DR driver license for my non-resident Swiss business partner. We provide the original legal Swiss driver license, authenticated by the Swiss consulate and certified by canceleria in Santo Domingo.
... J-D.
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J.D.,
i did not study the drivers license law of the DR, but had one little side experience when i did my own permanent DR drivers license. i did so in La Romana. where i presented my finally completed/needed documents to finish that stuff the guy asked me first for my passport and a copy of it, it surprised me b/c nobody told me that i would need that, so i did not have it handy, i told him : hey, why i need my passport in addition to my cedula? and the answer been clear: ooh, excuse me, i did not know that you have a cedula. i bet if i would not be a permanent resident with cedula i would have gotten my same drivers license that day with my passport b/c i am a foreigner.
to the posts about the international drivers license:
that is not a real drivers license, it is just a translation of your original home/local drivers license and gives in no way any additional rights to what the non-translated license does. it is just a helpful translation when pulled over by a cop who does not read your mother's language written on the original license of your homecountry. in case of insurances it is only worth for the same time period than your original home license is worth/valid.
J.D., forget the lawyers, drive with your friend to your nearest office of obras publicas where they issue the licenses and ask for the needed 'requisitos' to get a dominican drivers license, that's the first hand notice from the persons who issue the license.
Mike