7DaysinParadise
Travel => General Travel => Topic started by: Crestfield on January 11, 2007, 05:21:00 PM
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In the past a passport has not been required to travel to the Dominican Republic. Does anyone know if this is still true or if there are any plans to change this?
I work with a young gal who foolishly has left her passport application a little too close for comfort and is now looking to book a last minute trip. Her passport is supposed to be here within the next week and she wants to travel in 2 weeks time. :(
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Funny you should ask. :D
My daughter is in the same boat. She applied for herself and the 2 kids passports in December. She was told that they would receive them back on Jan 11th.
Guess what? Today is Jan 11th and when they didn't arrive she called to find out the status.
Apparently there is a huge backlog, and as of this morning they are only at Nov 28th submissions. She has no hope of getting hers anytime soon.
They mailed them in after being processed at the Post Office. They had to send their ID with the package so now she is asking that their ID be returned so that they can travel with that.
The response she got was that it would take 4 - 5 business days because they have to go through all the bags to find it. Which brings them into the middle of next week.
John checked with Your Travel tickets to find out if she could go to DR without a passport.
This was their reply:
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Adults will need Government issued photo ID and original birth certificate.
Kids travelling with both parents will need original birth certificate (short form ok).
The woman at YTT also suggested that they call their local MPP to see if he/she can get the passports expedited. “No guarantees, but it’s been known to work on occasion.”
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I literally think I would lose my mind if I were to cut it that close (not that I'm that far from it already :(
When is your daughter scheduled to travel?
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She was hoping to travel next weekend Jan 20th, fortunately my SIL said that he wasn't booking anything until he had passports in hand.