Location: Santo Domingo
Event: U.S. citizens may directly return to the United States with certain expired U.S. passports.
If you are overseas and your passport expired on or after January 1, 2020, you may be able to use your expired passport to return directly to the United States until December 31, 2021.
You
all the following are true:
You are a U.S. citizen.
You are currently abroad seeking direct return to the United States.
You are flying directly to the United States, a United States territory, or have only short-term transit (“connecting flights”) through a foreign country on your direct return to the United States or to a United States Territory.
The U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo is still not processing routine B1/B2 visas. The Embassy remains closed for routine tourist visa in-person interviews. We continue to provide all U.S. citizen services and most immigrant visa services. We are also prioritizing student visas, work and petition-based visas, as well as cultural exchanges and Summer Work Travel (SWT) visas. We will resume routine B1B2 visa services as soon as possible but are unable to provide a specific date at this time.
We continue to provide appointments in the future, as this is necessary to facilitate emergency requests. If you have an urgent matter and need to travel immediately, please follow the guidance provided at https://www.ustraveldocs.com/do/do-niv-expeditedappointment.asp to request an emergency appointment.
Página Inicial | News & Events | The United States Government: supporting the Dominican Republic since the start of the pandemic
The office of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo has cooperated with various agencies of the Dominican Government since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to support the public health system and the response to the health crisis. Since April 2020, Dr. Carmen Figueroa, a medical epidemiologist of the CDC assigned to the U.S. Embassy, has personally supported the response of the Dominican Government from the Emergency Operations Center (COE).
A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo announces an open competition to support effective partnerships that will bolster and leverage U.S. – Dominican Republic higher education research collaboration and capacity building focused on the U.S. Embassy integrated country strategy goals including gender-based violence, public health, environment, climate change, energy, democracy, transparency, citizen security, LGBTQI rights, and access to education for vulnerable populations. Proposals should include at least one U.S. higher education institution and one Dominican higher education institution as joint implementers. The proposal should support the development of a sustainable and long lasting partnership between U.S. and Dominican higher education institutions and training and capacity building for Dominican students, faculty, and researchers.
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Do not travel to the Dominican Republic due to COVID-19.
Read the Department of State’s COVID-19 page before you plan any international travel.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Level 4 Travel Health Notice for the Dominican Republic due to COVID-19, indicating a very high level of COVID-19 in the country.