Only 6,000 of 40,000 renew ID

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) reports that only 6,000 of almost 41,000 foreigners with expired IDs renewed their IDs (cedulas) during the grace period granted by the government. Eddy Olivares, in charge of the program, said that during the last two days, 500 foreigners turned up to update their IDs. Now foreigners will have to pay fines of RD$1,000 and RD$500 for every month since document expired. "It looks like not only we Dominicans suffer from leaving things to the last minute," he said when interviewed on the Visa Semanal, Channel 37 talk show, as reported in Listin Diario.

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