Recently, more and more Russians and residents of the CIS choose such an exotic country as Dominican. They are primarily attracted by magnificent beach holidays, a soft climate, a warm and clean sea, beautiful nature, as well as the friendliness of local residents.
Holidays in Dominican are also good because the citizens of the Russian Federation does not require a visa for staying in Dominican.
Visa for Russians, Ukrainians and residents of Kazakhstan
All you need to enter the country - a valid passport, whose validity period is at least three months from the date of entry into the territory of the Dominican Republic.
A visa-free period of stay for Russians in Dominican Republic - one month (or rather 30 days). In the plane, you will be given a migration card that you need to fill in printed letters. You need to use blue or black handle. The migration card must be filled with each arriving, including a child. There is nothing special in this card - you need to specify your name and surname, gender, date of birth, citizenship, marital status, write your home address (no one will be checked), the address of your stay in Dominican Republic (that is, the hotel or address of your friends or relatives), as well as the purpose of your visit (tourism) and the passport number. In fact, no one looks at this card, the border guard takes her and go somewhere, not even looking at what you wrote there.
Upon arrival at the airport you will have to pay a fee for the so-called tourist card - 10 dollars from each tourist. The border guard will take your migration card that you filled in the plane and put you in the passport entry stamp. On official websites, travel agencies indicate that you need to have a hotel reservation, as well as a return ticket from Dominican Republic - I was in there several times, no one asked anything. However, just in case you can not remove these documents.
On official websites, it is also indicated that for each additional day of stay in Dominican Republic (over one month) will be charged with you a fine of 60 peso (up to 9 months of stay) or 100 peso (up to the year of stay). In fact, many of my friends constantly or seasonally live in the territory of this country, without having a residence permit and without prolonging their visa. By departure, they just pay a small penalty (far from 100 peso per day) - about 50-100 dollars "on the paw" border guard, after which they quietly put an exit stamp and say with a smile: we are waiting for you again. It does not apply to them to them, they are also quietly entering back and continue to do this, no discussion or restriction on the entry of speech does not go.
For citizens of Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the same rules apply as for Russians.
Visa for citizens of the Republic of Belarus
For citizens of Belarus, unfortunately, there is no visa-free entrance to the Dominican Republic.To enter the dominican on the tourist card (which is purchased at the airport for 10 dollars), only those citizens of the Republic of Belarus can only have a current multiple Visa of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom or the countries of the European Union. Those who have no such visa, have to make a visa to travel to Dominican Republic.
To begin registration of a visa is best over the month - two before the expected trip to Dominican Republic, it is most convenient to do this through a travel company. There is no Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Minsk, so the documents go to Moscow. Personally present at the same time. The usual period of visa is 18-20 business days of consulate, including the day when the documents were received for consideration. For a visa, you must provide the following documents:
Acting passport
one color matte photography, size 3, 5 x 4, 5; The person should take 80% of the photos, the distance from the chin to the bridges 13-15 mm, white background
questionnaire. Filled in black handle, printed letters
Financial guarantees (1000 dollars per person) - an extract from a bank account with translation into Spanish or a copy of road checks
Help from the place of work or from the place of study (that the educational institution does not object to the visit to the student / student of the Dominican Republic)
For unemployed / housewives - sponsored letter translated into Spanish and documents confirming kinship
The cost of a visa per person is $ 250, discounts are provided with simultaneous delivery on a visa of two or more passports. The visa is inserted into a separate clean page, so that you should have at least two clean pages in your passport - one for a visa, the second for the entrance stamp. As a rule, the visa of Belarusians is provided without any problems (of course, in the presence of all of the above documents).
In addition, in the Dominican Republic you can make an urgent visa (the period of registration is from 9 to 11 working days), the price in this case will be higher.
Documents that should take with you on the trip
If you do not plan an independent holiday in Dominican, then you will need only passport and insurance. Be sure to place insurance when traveling - it will save you from unnecessary spending if you get sick or get injured during the rest. Insurance must have with me - on it all the necessary phone numbers are written. However, you can simply record the number of your insurance and all the necessary phones.
The passport does not need to carry with you, the documents on the street do not check anyone. It is best to keep all the important documents in the safe - so you will not lose them, and you do not steal them.
If you want to get into a casino or nightclub and look very young - take a photocopy of a passport or some document where your photo and date of birth (for example, student certificate, driver's license).
If you want to rent a car - take with you the right of an international sample - without them you will not be able to rent a car.