Why would one who has lived their entire life according to the prevailing laws, suddenly go berzerk and get in "trouble" simply because they added another citizenship????? As a US citizen and DR resident for many years, the LAST people I would call for assistance would be the US Embassy - they are nothing but tits on a bull as far as I am concerned. (the final nail in the coffin for me was their meeting the day after 9/11).
If I have problems, I will take care of it myself, I won't go looking for some bureaucrat in a cheesy polyester suit on a 3 year tour to the DR (before his next assignment to another small country), to help me out.
A US citizen is only liable for continued US taxation if their renunciation of citizenship is deemed to be for the purposes of evading US income taxes, but if one has established ties to the DR, family, etc they aren't going to push this issue.
As far as not being able to travel with Dominican citizenship, give me one example of any dominican with money and no police record who has been denied a visa to countries other than the US....it's abig world out there, and there are far more interesting places to visit and nicer people to meet.
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