Santo Domingo.- The consulates in the country have been forced to increase the rejection of visa applications at their windows, because of altered documents that include birth and marriage records, identity cards and adoptions of children.
Government and Central Electoral Board (JCE) agents work on hundreds of fraud cases reported by United States and European Union consulates, who say the number of illegal cases in the Civil Registrar are unprecedented compared with other nations.
JCE officials acknowledged its weakness to curb the mafia’s Civil Registrar document-forgery "factory," and in its entire technical registration process to issue IDs.
Of the JCE’s 160 registry offices operating across the country only five are technically prepared –all located in greater Santo Domingo- where it said it’s impossible to perform multiple registrations.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Fraud and forgery in the DR ...I am shocked shocked
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
I agree, how dare they!!!!!!!!!!!! That puts them in direct competition with the government
Written by: Bizc8, 28 Jul 2008 2:10 PM
From: United States
I certainly hope they don't give anybody visas to enter ANY country until they get their situation rectified in the DR as it relates to government documents/ID's.
Our little half-island nation is too used to thinking they can get away with taking advantage of others. Corruption, deceit and outright impunity are the norm in DR and I'm just sick of it. We have our values twisted and what' was considered to be commendable and plausible is now viewed as a sign of stupidity.
¡Dan ganas de vomitar!
From: Dominican Republic
Well, I guess there goes the ballgame insofar as getting immigrant for my wife and 3 adopted boys, doesn't it?
I've already spent over US$3000.00 getting the adoptions, all the forms completed, notarized, copied and authenicated, now they throw this monkey-wrench into the works.
I feel like taking an AR-15 and cleaning up on all the crooks I can find.
TexasBill
From: Dominican Republic
I can consider myself lucky i guess...Carmen will be coming with me next week to Canada for a vacation. Just think if we waited...pay the money....no visa...regardless!
From: Iraq, 10 billion dollars a month for nothing
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From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Hey chill man nice to see you made bail
From: Iraq, 10 billion dollars a month for nothing
actually, I did have t bail my self out.........
GC, why do you post sooooooo much in a Dominican News paper... When in fact you are a Cuban, remember most Dominicans are for the left. why are you soo against the Left
From: United Kingdom
Internal control that’s what all the institutions in the Dr need, where are all the accountants ?( In on the take i guess)
From: United States
chillaxin, i am afraid i have to concur with your dire prediction. i have seen it only too often. the last case i saw was a girl who went to San Juan to pick up her visa, and the next thing her husband knew was that she was in brooklyn. she caught a flight out of san juan under cover of secrecy and left the poor guy looking all over for her in PR.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Dread you and your little buddy Chill have a lot of class bustin TBs balls like that
From: Dominican Republic
chilliaxin, you lousy SOB, we have been happily married for over 4 years. How dare you infer that our marriage is "in name only" and that my lovely and very religious wife married me for nefarious reasons. She was informed at the beginning that we WOULD NOT be moving to the States. The decision to do so was MY DECISION ALONE without ANY prompting from her. The same thing with the adoptions.
So, before you cast disparagements against ANYONE, you might take a very close look at yourself in the mirror and identify the sorry SOB that you see.
That same comment applies to the others that agree with you.
Adios, A$$holes
Billy H. Adams
A/K/A TexasBill
Santiago, RD.
From: United States
actually, Goulet, i make no mention of Texas Bill here. i do not know the man more than from his posts, and i am not privy to his circumstances. i am agreeing with chill on a general, not specific level. and if you disagree with me, just ask the gazillion gringos who have come here, married Dominicans, only to find that a month after they land in the USA they have all skeedaddled off to the Heights, leaving spouse in the dust. that, my friend, is par for the course, and nothing unusual.
From: United Kingdom
chillaxin201, you’re a miserable human being
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Dread I believe you and I am well aware of the circumstances of many of these kinds of things but we can all be insensitive sometimes...Pardon me for saying but you should have been aware from your previous unfortunate encounter with TB who I know you respect
From: United Kingdom
Certain people are forgetting that Dominicans are not all dastardly and crooked, there’s still people with moral character left on the island; the problem is that they are not in positions of power.
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
When I was working in Venezuela I sent one of my employess to "see someone he knew" and he came back the next day with my drivers license and medical certificate complete with picture, cost me a total of 15 bucks. I would immagine the same thing happens there.
From: United States
Goulet, i have nothing but respect for TB, and he should know that i am not referring directly to him in my posts. but there are general issues at stake, and, if they are remotely referential to his circumstance, he should not take things personally. i have personally helped two Dominican women set up residence in New York, extending my home to them free of charge. as soon as they found their own folks through the network of cab drivers and hairdressers, they were gone!! no forwarding address, no calls to say hello, nothing. i have no idea where they are today. the sad thing is that this would be true if the folks were from Argentina, Chad, Myanmar. i guess it is called: comfort level. they feel more secure with their own. it is not a flaw in character in all cases.
From: Dominican Republic
Gentlemen:
My post was directed, essentially, at those who use insensitive the language of "ONE FITS ALL" in their posts.
If the SHOE FITS, THEN SO BE IT. I make NO APOLOGY.
To those whose intentions are a not specifically to direct ones posts, then mea culpa andI beg forgiveness.
Perhaps I am a bit sensitive when it comes to derrogatory references about my family or mine in all circumstances, but a direct reference of such really sets me off andI must respond to that person(s) who commit the sin of slander against those whom I have great affection.
I am sure that most of you feel the same way and have absolutely NO TOLERANCE for those who make use of generalized statements against individuals.
TexasBill
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
TB probably even chillaxin is a kid that did not know any better but should ....and he does now
From: United States
Goulet, chill may have offended TB in the way his post was phrased, but the facts speak for themselves. the streets of new york are littered with the hopes of gringos who came here, " fell in love" with some girl, laid out a mess of money to get her a visa, and, after a while, has no idea of her whereabouts. ( some women have been taken in by sankey pankeys, also).this is not news: anybody who has not been residing in a cave for the last 20 years knows the score on this issue.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
If you really think about it dread they would be in the minority of these types of inter cultural marriages ...but they would be enough to notice ....All foreigners looking for a greencard from anywhere think this is the easiest way to get in...not just the DR.....Also any failed marriage the person who was legal would feel wronged or used possibly....Just like that chick that left you handcuffed to the bed after she had degraded you and then walked out and you had to scream for the landlord to come with a hack saw
From: United States
Goulet, you make a very accurate point, darn it! women from all over the world, looking to come to the states, will pull the same stunt.Dominican women are not unique in that respect. i am sure if there is a website Phillipinestoday.com, some guy is cautioning future victims about the same possibility, in quite the same way we are doing here. as to the girl who chained me to the radiator; we have a 6pm appointment for an encore performance. and no, you may not come over to my house to watch!
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
probably most of the Eurotrash that get greencards nowadays is by marriage .... this is the method man or women
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
and they are the envy of all their friends because just like West Side Story......They wanna go to America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6wo2wpT2k .......Watch it all the way it is excellent and says volumes about life in 1961
From: United States
could not have put it more succinctly myself. it is all a means to an end. and please, i do not need a scolding from those who might choose to call me misogynistic; res ipse loquitur (the thing speaks for itself)
From: Dominican Republic
I also notice that chilli doesn't have the balls to issuean apology for his slanderous statement.
That say a lot for his lack of sensitivity and compassion for his fellow man.
Child or imulating a man, his lack of humanity says a lot for his upbringing and background.
Lack of respect foir others and their feelings is very evident where he is concerned.
And he's still an A$$hole and a Smarta$$ as far as I am concerned.
TB
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
In all fairness to him TB I have not seen him about anywhere in the blog ...maybe he is shamed or in jail
From: Dominican Republic
GC;
The man??? doesn't deserve any fair judgements as far as I am concerned.
TB
From: Iraq, 10 billion dollars a month for nothing
Mr. Adams, I was not trying to harm your feelings when I posted that comment, If you where highly offend which you have stated. I am sorry, I hope you and your wife have a lovely life together.
when I read your comment I was also thinking of a couple stories I have heard. I have also recalled the several million times I have been asked to marry some one for papers I have Refused.
I am glad to see you love your wife, so many people see DR and Dominican Woman as a Prostitute Paradise....
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
From: Dominican Republic
Chillaxin201;
Your apology accepted.
There is nothing more that I can say with regards to your explanation since you said it all.
Best wishes.
TB
From: United Kingdom
This is an interview from the NY. times today with T.Boone Pickens ....Old T. Boone is a very smart and amusing guy.....When I read it I thought of TB so if you should read it I think you will get my idea.... "
His(energy) plan will not work unless its heavily subsidized by the government but he knows that .
P.S I’m serious about this, TB, u should write a book I would buy it.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
A fool with a plan will beat a genius without one....how true
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Our little half-island nation is too used to thinking they can get away with taking advantage of others. Corruption, deceit and outright impunity are the norm in DR and I'm just sick of it. We have our values twisted and what' was considered to be commendable and plausible is now viewed as a sign of stupidity.
¡Dan ganas de vomitar!
I've already spent over US$3000.00 getting the adoptions, all the forms completed, notarized, copied and authenicated, now they throw this monkey-wrench into the works.
I feel like taking an AR-15 and cleaning up on all the crooks I can find.
TexasBill
GC, why do you post sooooooo much in a Dominican News paper... When in fact you are a Cuban, remember most Dominicans are for the left. why are you soo against the Left
So, before you cast disparagements against ANYONE, you might take a very close look at yourself in the mirror and identify the sorry SOB that you see.
That same comment applies to the others that agree with you.
Adios, A$$holes
Billy H. Adams
A/K/A TexasBill
Santiago, RD.
Gentlemen:
My post was directed, essentially, at those who use insensitive the language of "ONE FITS ALL" in their posts.
If the SHOE FITS, THEN SO BE IT. I make NO APOLOGY.
To those whose intentions are a not specifically to direct ones posts, then mea culpa andI beg forgiveness.
Perhaps I am a bit sensitive when it comes to derrogatory references about my family or mine in all circumstances, but a direct reference of such really sets me off andI must respond to that person(s) who commit the sin of slander against those whom I have great affection.
I am sure that most of you feel the same way and have absolutely NO TOLERANCE for those who make use of generalized statements against individuals.
TexasBill
That say a lot for his lack of sensitivity and compassion for his fellow man.
Child or imulating a man, his lack of humanity says a lot for his upbringing and background.
Lack of respect foir others and their feelings is very evident where he is concerned.
And he's still an A$$hole and a Smarta$$ as far as I am concerned.
TB
The man??? doesn't deserve any fair judgements as far as I am concerned.
TB
when I read your comment I was also thinking of a couple stories I have heard. I have also recalled the several million times I have been asked to marry some one for papers I have Refused.
I am glad to see you love your wife, so many people see DR and Dominican Woman as a Prostitute Paradise....
Your apology accepted.
There is nothing more that I can say with regards to your explanation since you said it all.
Best wishes.
TB
His(energy) plan will not work unless its heavily subsidized by the government but he knows that .
P.S I’m serious about this, TB, u should write a book I would buy it.