Return Ticket from Dominican Republic

[Manita]

If I enter on a standard tourist card will I be allowed to enter the country with a return ticket 6 months from arrival. Once I am there I will deal with the paperwork to extend my status.

[ricktoronto]

Since unless you look like a doper hippie trouble maker (or an evangelist) there is a 0.000000001% chance the subject will come up (e.g. whether you even HAVE a return plane ticket) when you go to passport control, then I'd not worry too much about it. They have a tax system to collect on the overstay that is only RD$1000 after 5 YEARS staying beyond your tourist card so it is not great concern compared to other countries. Six months I think is like US$4 or $5.

Tip: At Passport Control don't let on you know a word of Spanish, thus no conversation will ensue. OF course if you look like Thalia they might assume you do.

[Mauricio]

The problem with the return ticket does not arise in the Dominican Republic (they have never ever even mentioned something like that all the times I entered the country). However and the check-in counter of the airport where you board for Santo Domingo they might ask for the return ticket from Santo Domingo.

According to for example Iberia I needed to have a return ticket with a departure date within 3 months from arrival (even though the tourist card that you buy in the DR only permits a 15 days stay and everything more already needs extra paper work).

What I do when I want to go to my home country is that I buy a roundtrip SD-Amsterdam-SD and additionally I buy a ticket SD-Puerto Rico, the latter without any restrictions. As soon as I am back I return that ticket to the airline and they refund the ticket price (even though the last time I did this, they made me buy a ticket that asks for a 50 dollar refund fee.)

Leaving the country indeed is not any problem after having stayed too long. I stayed a 9 months too long and had to pay 10 dollars.

gr. Mauricio