AFTER HAITI VISA SCANDAL, STRICTER RULES
(Dominican Today) -
SANTO DOMINGO - Starting today only the Foreign Ministry in Santo Domingo will issue visas from requests submitted without intermediaries to Dominican consulates in Haiti.
Foreign relations minister Carlos Morales adopted the measure yesterday, to avoid any distortion or irregularity in Dominican visas issued to Haitians.
The announcement comes on the heels of reports of beauty salons, barber shops and cafes in Haiti where Dominican visas were advertised for US$180.
Although Morales discarded the reports as “harmful misinformation about Dominican visas," he warned of drastic penalties for consuls who violate the Foreign Ministry’s procedure to issue business visas.
The Foreign Relations Ministry held an emergency meeting Wednesday morning with the consuls assigned in Haiti, after several travel agencies in that nation offered Haitians the service of obtaining a Dominican visa, including the legal proceedings in the consulates.
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