Tourist card fine rates

[Bok]

My parents are flying into SDQ next week and will be staying with us for 17 days. I read in another thread that there's a fine for tourists if you stay for more than 15 days.
Last time I went through immigration on my way out I noticed a sign with the rates but I can't remember the limits and charges and they probably changed since then.

1. Does anyone know the going rates for these fines and how and where these are to be paid?

2. Is the fine just due if you don't announce that you'll be staying for more than 15 days?

3. Correct me if I have the immigration procedure wrong:
Buy your touristcard on arrival for 10 USD; 2 blue pages and a card in business-card size with a barcode on it.
Fill in one blue page and hand it over to immigration as they stamp your passport.
Keep the other blue page and the "business"card for departure.

I'd like to pass on as accurate info as possible to them since they don't speak any Spanish and very limited English.
I would sort of like it to be like ordering soup at the soup-nazi in Seinfeld, although it'll probably not be as bad. They've been here twice before when the green touristcard was the order of the day but they are old dogs and this is a new trick.

Thanks,
Bok

[laurapasinifan]

PM STIOP...he works at STI airport, and will probably have the correct answer for you........I remember reading the fines and i remember reading here about the fine...but I cant recall exactly i wont say ...except it was very small( the fine)

bob

[rellosk]

Originally Posted by Bok

My parents are flying into SDQ next week and will be staying with us for 17 days. I read in another thread that there's a fine for tourists if you stay for more than 15 days.
Last time I went through immigration on my way out I noticed a sign with the rates but I can't remember the limits and charges and they probably changed since then.

1. Does anyone know the going rates for these fines and how and where these are to be paid?

Here's a link showing the rates. You need to click on Page 4.

http://www.migracion.gov.do/tarifas.htm

As far as where you pay them, (assuming you don;t prepay tem and you pay them upon exiting the DR), in SDQ it's probably after security and before immigration. Some have said that they've just handed the person in the immigration booth money. The picture on the website indicates that's not the normal route.

Originally Posted by Bok

2. Is the fine just due if you don't announce that you'll be staying for more than 15 days?

I believe they are fees and not fines, so you probably pay them either way.

Originally Posted by Bok

3. Correct me if I have the immigration procedure wrong:
Buy your touristcard on arrival for 10 USD; 2 blue pages and a card in business-card size with a barcode on it.
Fill in one blue page and hand it over to immigration as they stamp your passport.
Keep the other blue page and the "business"card for departure.

That seems to be the process. Unless you ask, they will only give you on blue page on arrival. The two trips I took, no one told me about the second blue page until I stepped up to the immigration counter (and then I needed to leave the line, fill out the form, and return).

At those times, the process was still fairly new, hopefully the airlines have learned the new process and will be handing people the blue form when they check in.

[Tamborista]

What happens if you never leave?

[laurapasinifan]

Originally Posted by Tamborista

What happens if you never leave?

your in jail

bob

[carina]

Originally Posted by Tamborista

What happens if you never leave?

Nada

When you apply for a residency though, and when you get the temporary one ( the one you get for the first year before you can have your permanent residency), you pay the same fee as the above mentioned tariff.
(From the date your tourist card expired to the day your temporary residency is approved )

[LoveMyDRHusband]

I was just there in Nov and the card is good for 90 days not 10.and the fines run from 100 pesos to 300,000 and thats after 10 yrs

[LoveMyDRHusband]

Or maybe it was 30days I don't remember but I know that if your parents are only going to be there 2 weeks they have nothing to worry about 10us at the airport

[laurapasinifan]

hmmmm I thought the limit was 15 days...not 10 nor 90

I am thinking( possibly poorly) that the 90 days applies to something else, and not the tourist card

bob

[rellosk]

Originally Posted by Tamborista

What happens if you never leave?

Is that your plan? You've been there for a while.