Leticia Perez Vera

Review of Dominican Republic Consulate i...

Good afternoon, my personal experience with this v...

Good afternoon, my personal experience with this visa center is very bad. My family members have not only lost their time, money and patience. But because of the bad practice of their workers they never gave the information completely or in person, nor via telephone. The website is incomplete or erroneous in the requirements for a tourist trip of a minor. The rate they pay at the visa center does not correspond to the one announced on the website, this could be considered fraud. They refuse a visa by probability or presumption that a minor will not leave Spanish territory. What criteria are taken into account when your Dominican father legally resident in Spain asks your child to spend a one-month holiday period? Taking into account that absolutely all economic requirements are met, accommodation, invitation letter, medical insurance. And yet they base their denial on a supposed presumption and insufficient or unsustainable condition. I am ashamed as a Spaniard that a visa center which carries my flag, my laws and my constitution is able to deny a visa based on opinions and value judgments of officials who have not had reserved hearings with parents. I don't know to what extent they take into account the emotions, feelings and pain caused to a 7-year-old boy with the illusion of simply traveling to share time with his father. I hope that in the future they will have a more transparent, flexible and, above all, fair method. Since my impression is that everything related to the Consulate of Spain in the Dominican Republic is subject to personal opinions of poorly qualified persons, serving as civil servants.