Mexico/Cubans are among the nationalities with the highest number of migratory permits granted in the Dominican Republic in 2025. According to a report by the General Directorate of Migration (DGM) of that published country Last Sundayfrom January to August of this year, 1,245 obtained their documents for their legal residence.
According to the report, the natives of the island are the sixth nationality with more beneficiaries with a immigration status in that nation. Of the 54,165 migratory documents granted by Dominican in the first eight months of the year, 30,717 went to Haitian citizens, “who accepted, at the time, the National Plan for Regularization of Foreigners (PNRE) developed by the Dominican State between June 2014 and June 2015”. The institution explained that 24,518 procedures correspond to temporary workers and 3,994, temporary residences.
In a second place, with 10,089 beneficiaries, there are Venezuelan citizens, “which also accepted the normalization process for Venezuelan citizens, between January 2021 and October 2022”. Other nationalities with a high number of documents issued are China (1,829), United States (1,644), Colombia (1,342) and Spain (1,172).
In May of that year, according to the DGM data, an atypical increase in documents granted that covered several countries was recorded
According to the DGM, of the more than 54,000 documents issued, most are related to the renewal of temporary work permits for non -residents (30,128) units, followed by temporary residences (16,451), permanent residences (3,941) “and other documents of other migratory subcategories, including study permits (1,652) and special stays”.
Meanwhile, from 2018 to July of this year, the Dominican Republic has granted 14,664 residences – whether temporary, permanent or definitive – to people from Cuba. Open data from the General Directorate of Migration shows a sustained increase in the number of applications, according to 14ymedio. In 2018, the institution reported the delivery of 990 documents. For 2019, the figure increased to 1,435. A year later, due to the pandemic, with only 1,035 procedures (in March of that year, when most countries closed their borders, Dominican did not deliver residences).
By 2021, the trend continued upwards, with 1,371. In 2022 it rose to 1,783, while in 2023 the number was practically the same, with 1,782. In 2024, the residences delivered to 5,255. In May of that year, according to the DGM data, an atypical increase in documents granted that covered several countries was recorded. In the Cuban case, only that month were 3,794. Finally, from January to July of this year, the General Directorate of Migration has counted 1,013.
Meanwhile, about irregular migration, and in particular with the population from Haiti, this Monday, The same DGM He informed that, only last August, deported 35,276 immigrants from that country.
The institution reported that the repatriations “are carried out after an individual treatment in the processing centers that the DGM has in different territorial demarcations and where each person is taken the biometric data and fingerprints, in addition to investigating the real status and condition of each. The Haitian nationals are delivered directly to the authorities of their country.”
Before the campaign that the country has undertaken against Haitian immigrants, Amnesty International (AI) insisted on his call to the Dominican President to put an end, “immediately”, to his “racist and discriminatory” immigration policies that, in his opinion, apply against Haitians in this country.
He also demanded the revocation of the sanitary protocol that links access to health services of undocumented Haitians with deportation, 2 a measure that puts lives and violates the right to health. ”
“The arrests of those undocumented foreigners mark a sustained growth trajectory that demonstrates the effective The statement.
The figure reinforces what the Dominican Observatory of migratory policies, which reported that 291.007 Haitians were repatriated, between October 2024 and July, in addition to the country displaced more than 11,000 troops on the border with Haiti. The Government has allocated about 11 million dollars “throughout the process that entails the arrest, purification and deportation of undocumented Haitians.”
