Haitians just grabbed the top spot for legal residency in the Dominican Republic. The General Directorate of Migration approved paperwork for over nine thousand nationals from next door recently. This group took nearly thirty percent of the total pie, which puts them far above Venezuelan applicants who finished in distant seconds.
Officials handed out roughly thirty-two thousand permits overall to people from one hundred twenty-five countries. Most received temporary status during this period. The volume represents a return to standard averages following a massive outlier event previously. Normal cycles typically see between twenty-five and thirty-three thousand approvals annually.
That prior anomaly occurred when the agency stamped over one hundred twenty thousand documents in just four weeks before the elections. That massive push regularized people at four times the usual speed. Sixty-two percent of all Haitian permits granted since 2018 came from that single frantic window.
Current numbers show the system stabilizing after that electoral regularization frenzy. The data confirms that the wild spike was definitely an isolated incident. Migrants keep applying for legal standing even without the accelerated processing speed seen previously.
Officials handed out roughly thirty-two thousand permits overall to people from one hundred twenty-five countries. Most received temporary status during this period. The volume represents a return to standard averages following a massive outlier event previously. Normal cycles typically see between twenty-five and thirty-three thousand approvals annually.
That prior anomaly occurred when the agency stamped over one hundred twenty thousand documents in just four weeks before the elections. That massive push regularized people at four times the usual speed. Sixty-two percent of all Haitian permits granted since 2018 came from that single frantic window.
Current numbers show the system stabilizing after that electoral regularization frenzy. The data confirms that the wild spike was definitely an isolated incident. Migrants keep applying for legal standing even without the accelerated processing speed seen previously.
