NEW TOURISTS CARDS

[el_papi_chew_low]

Hang on to that credit card-sized tourist card you receive when you arrive in the country until departure, or pay a US$10 penalty fee. Some immigration officials are stapling it to passports. The Department of Taxes (DGII) recently started issuing the new cards, reportedly in coordination with a private company. While the procedures for the purchase of the new colored card are simple for the independent traveler, they have created chaos for major tour operators that had purchased large numbers of the old forms for expedite entrance of their passengers. The government has said that the expiration date for the old format is 31 December, but seeing as stock in the hands of several tour operators is enough to last many more weeks, this may have to be extended. The procedure calls for an extra form-filling step but is being implemented to avoid forging and fraudulent sales of the document. The new cards have an electronic chip that activates a card reader when swiped at the airport. Each passenger's information is collected by the passengers filling out an embarkation/disembarkation form. At the present time, the new cards are only for sale at Dominican ports of arrival, but the plan is to distribute them abroad through Dominican government missions.

Source: DR1

[El Drunko]

Last week, they handed out a new blue form that has the same info as the old green card that you had to buy. Then you bought a credit card sized paper card. They took the small card and the blue form.

On return to the airport, they handed out another blue form, yes the same one I already filled out once. They took that at immigration.

So to me it looks as though things haven`t changed much. The govenment is still fucked up. Maybe it will take untill after the first of the year to get things in place.

[Dick Dawson]

That's exactly what happened to me. I misplaced that card and had to pay on the way back.

[El Drunko]

You misplaced what card? The small one? I would have bitched to high heaven if I had to buy another one.

Then you guys would have had to bail me out...

[psriches]

How $much$ total for the cards?

[vdubman30]

YEAH I LOOKED AT THE GIRL LIKE SHE HAD 5 HEADS WHEN SHE GAVE ME THE CARD..

[gdogg]

YEAH I LOOKED AT THE GIRL LIKE SHE HAD 5 HEADS WHEN SHE GAVE ME THE CARD..

Me too! And I think I still have mine, was I supposed to give it up?
:roll:

I'm glad this topic was brought up, I forgot about the new card!

[LM]

Yeah, when I left DR, the tour people were handing out the new tourist cards, didn't look any different other than blue and larger, same information to fill...

[vdubman30]

THEY TOOK MINE WITH THE BLUE FORM..

[gdogg]

How $much$ total for the cards?

You pay the same $10, you just receive different stuff (new blue sheet to fill out, and the plastic credit card-sized tourist card).

[LM]

How $much$ total for the cards?

You pay the same $10, you just receive different stuff (new blue sheet to fill out, and the plastic credit card-sized tourist card).

never did see the plastic credit card-sized tourist card, the visas are always, for us Canadians anyways, included in the purchase of our flight ticket....that $20 departure tax annoys the hell out of me though.. :?

[ErikS]

If the line is short, I've always bought multiple $10 tourist cards to use on future trips.
Next trip, you fill them out on the plane and then bypass the line.

I still have two of them. Hope I can still use them in January?

[knotty]

ain't that new rule about using your birth certificate is forbidden go into effect on Jan. 1?

[the_Jayman]

On return to the airport, they handed out another blue form, yes the same one I already filled out once. They took that at immigration.

You mean the one we didn't fill out on the way in. I still have my white customs form from the way down too.

[whynotme]

i have never gotten a passport so i hope we don't need one after jan 1st.
already there for xmas but haven;t booked canadian invasion yet.if we need one there goes that trip unless i get my ass in gear and go apply. anyone know for sure about birth certificate vs passport after jan??????????

[Phoenix]

i have never gotten a passport so i hope we don't need one after jan 1st.
already there for xmas but haven;t booked canadian invasion yet.if we need one there goes that trip unless i get my ass in gear and go apply. anyone know for sure about birth certificate vs passport after jan??????????

DT did a large post on the passport thing, I asked two different Continental people. One said yes you need one for 2006, one said you don't.

[knotty]

i have never gotten a passport so i hope we don't need one after jan 1st.
already there for xmas but haven;t booked canadian invasion yet.if we need one there goes that trip unless i get my ass in gear and go apply. anyone know for sure about birth certificate vs passport after jan??????????

I believe this is suppose to go into effect immediately after that date. there is a post somewhere around that confirms this. Somebody help us out.

[the_Jayman]

Continental changed their online booking and now asks for a passport number when buying a plane ticket . . . don't know what that means.

[El Drunko]

Dont forget, rules are different for Cunucks

[gdogg]

During this last trip, I saw it written in several places that passports will be needed in the New Year. I don't know if this just for Americans, or just an American Airlines thing. I've hearing about this most of the year.