Migration eliminates 56,140 departure bans without judicial backing, restoring free transit

SANTO DOMINGO. — The General Directorate of Migration (DGM) withdrew 56,140 departure bans and migratory alerts that lacked legal backing, at the direct request of the Attorney General's Office, in a historic purge of more than three decades of accumulated records.

Attorney General Yeni Berenice Reynoso instructed the director of Migration, Vice Admiral Luis Rafael Lee Ballester, to prioritize lifting three types of records: individualized records without legal basis, non-individualized historical data accumulated between 1990 and 2026, and restrictions that had already fulfilled their legal purpose.

The result comes from meticulous work: a technical team made up of representatives of the Public Ministry and Migration reviewed the files case by case for more than six months. The task force audited the database accumulated since 1990 to clean up records that restricted the right to free transit due to administrative errors or expired files, including some related to proceedings already concluded.

The impact is immediate: with this massive lifting of restrictions, 56,140 citizens instantly regain their ability to travel abroad without trouble at the country's terminals. The Public Ministry described the process as a triumph of fundamental rights, correcting an anomaly that violated the personal liberty and free transit protected by the Constitution and Law 200 on departure bans.

The work does not end here. The task force will continue its purge until the system is fully cleaned, and authorities are preparing a new interoperability scheme to place and lift bans automatically, expected to enter into operation in December 2026.

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Source: DiarioDigitalRD