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01-30-2007, 04:00 PM
JCE president Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman has announced the imposition of fixed service fees at the JCE. This is being introduced alongside the implementation of fixed wages for JCE officials. Wages for civil registry officers are RD$50,000, RD$40,000 or RD$25,000 depending on rank. On making the announcement, Castanos said that he had just implemented what Law 8-92, dating back to 13 April 1992 had mandated. "To charge fees at a whim, to pay employees and gain personal benefits for providing a vital public service of registering basic dates in the lives of Dominicans, had become an irregularity that was accepted for decades. A strange modus operandi, but tolerated, clouded in great measure by complacency and political favors," he stated, while making the announcement. He criticized the chaos that had prevailed at the civil registry offices, complicating the citizens' lives when they requested a birth or death certificate. The civil registry offices were notorious for serving as fiefdoms that directly benefited JCE judges' pockets. The new regulations for Civil Registry services fees establish that birth registrations, extracts for getting the first "cedula" and those requested for school purposes are now free of charge. Likewise, death certificates are free, among other documents. An archive search for any civil registry document is also free, when the applicant indicates the year or provides a document that can facilitate its location.
The cost of getting married in the DR has increased considerably for foreigners. For a foreigner to wed outside a civil registry office, the charge is RD$15,000. If the couple visits a Civil Registry Office, the charge is RD$10,000. When one of the two is a non-resident foreigner, the wedding will cost RD$8,000 outside the office, or RD$5,000 at the office. When the foreigners are legal residents, the cost will be RD$3,000.
Dominicans who get married outside the offices need to pay RD$3,000, and RD$1,000 for a marriage at the registry. To transcribe a marriage held at a Catholic Church, the cost is RD$1,000. To transcribe marriages held abroad, the cost is RD$600.
An extract of a birth certificate costs RD$100, and the complete version is RD$200.
To register an adoption judgment, the fee is RD$400.
Divorce registrations pay RD$100 for the short version, and RD$200 for the long version. To transcribe a death that took place abroad, the charge is RD$200.
There is a RD$400 charge for a judgment that confirms any civil status document.
For a complete list of the new fees, go to http://www.jce.do
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The cost of getting married in the DR has increased considerably for foreigners. For a foreigner to wed outside a civil registry office, the charge is RD$15,000. If the couple visits a Civil Registry Office, the charge is RD$10,000. When one of the two is a non-resident foreigner, the wedding will cost RD$8,000 outside the office, or RD$5,000 at the office. When the foreigners are legal residents, the cost will be RD$3,000.
Dominicans who get married outside the offices need to pay RD$3,000, and RD$1,000 for a marriage at the registry. To transcribe a marriage held at a Catholic Church, the cost is RD$1,000. To transcribe marriages held abroad, the cost is RD$600.
An extract of a birth certificate costs RD$100, and the complete version is RD$200.
To register an adoption judgment, the fee is RD$400.
Divorce registrations pay RD$100 for the short version, and RD$200 for the long version. To transcribe a death that took place abroad, the charge is RD$200.
There is a RD$400 charge for a judgment that confirms any civil status document.
For a complete list of the new fees, go to http://www.jce.do
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)