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Moving abroad? Build your profile first.
A few quick questions — then you shape the result: a readiness score you can audit line by line, a city matched to what you ranked, a monthly budget you tune with your own fingers, and your next steps in the right order. Today the planner runs in full depth for every country marked available on the home-page grid — the other countries stop honestly where their planner stands, and dossiers open country by country as each one reaches the same standard.
What you'll build:
✓ A Relocation Readiness Score (0–100) — every point explained, nothing hidden
✓ A straight answer on whether your income clears the residency income line for your country (each test checked against its 2026 research)
✓ A city match from your own rankings, with the dated rent and cost figures behind it
✓ A budget builder you can tune — rent, utilities, groceries, your health buffer — against your residency math
✓ A healthcare reality check — what Medicare does and doesn't do abroad, the named hospitals near your matched cities (verified or labeled secondary, never blended), and the four ways care actually gets paid for
✓ A stateside wrap-up plan — the US house, the cars, the bank accounts — and an honest safety net for if it doesn't work out
✓ Faith-life and give-back sections matched to your city and interests — verified names only, gaps printed as gaps
✓ A personal next-steps timeline, from 12 months out to your first 90 days
Takes about 3 minutes. This is educational planning help, not legal, tax, or insurance advice — details at the bottom.
Your relocation profile (free review)
Built from your answers, in your browser, and saved on this device only — never sent to us. Figures below are researched estimates; each section names its source and its October 2026 check date instead of hiding behind one blanket stamp. This profile cannot determine your eligibility for anything — only Dominican authorities and licensed professionals can do that.
How your score breaks down — every point explained
How this score is calculated
Seven factors, weighted by how much each one can delay or derail a real move: financial readiness vs. the Dominican pensionado income line (30), documents status (15), timeline runway (15), healthcare planning (15), Spanish & daily-life readiness (10), pets & household logistics (10), and housing-plan clarity (5). Each factor's points are shown next to its bar above, with the reason in plain words. There is no hidden formula and no data leaves this page. The weights are our editorial judgment, stated openly — a different planner might weight them differently.
Your residency-route check
The pensionado income line — one route, not the only door. If your move runs on remote work, savings, family, or a long stay first, this line does not decide you; the country pages separate the verified routes and print the unverified ones as gaps.
Source: Ley No. 171-07 (Arts. 3–5) and DGM service pages, checked October 6, 2026; fee schedule per the residency module (DGM publishes no first-time pensionado filing fee — benchmark labeled where used, confirm at filing). Thresholds and fees change — every edition re-verifies them.
Your budget, against researched numbers
Sources: pensionado line (Ley 171-07, checked Oct 6, 2026); one-time government fees (DGM published schedule; first-time pensionado deposit unpublished — benchmark ≈$637 at RD$60.61 = US$1, Oct 6, 2026, confirm at filing); published real-world retiree monthly budgets of about $1,400–$3,000 across destinations (Live and Invest Overseas, observed 2026-10-06).
Your city match
Matched from your rankings. Every figure is a dated snapshot cell — contributor-reported or asking prices, never a verified paid lease — and any cell we haven't sampled yet says so.
How matching works
Each city carries dated research on cost level, beach access, healthcare depth, expat presence, pace of life, and whether an English-language worship option is verified there. Your rankings weight those dimensions (first picks count most), and the city's actual rent band for your home size is tested against your target budget — a great city you can't afford scores below one you can. Healthcare-critical answers raise the healthcare weight; faith answers raise the faith weight and flag any recommended city where no English service is verified. Nothing is hidden: your top matches list the reasons, and every figure links back to its snapshot date below.
Schooling, by your kids' ages
Healthcare where you land
Healthcare facts: hospitals' and insurers' own pages where labeled "verified," regulator (SISALRIL / Law 87-01) and hospital-published insurer lists, and Medicare.gov — checked October 6, 2026. Where a hospital claims "international accreditation" without naming the body, the claim prints and the body's name doesn't; procedure and dental prices print only when a dated, citable source exists. Education only — nothing here is an insurance recommendation or an enrollment steer.
Your monthly budget builder
Starts from your top-matched city's researched bands. Drag the sliders — the totals and the comparison to your pensionado math update as you go. Anything not from our snapshots is labeled as your estimate, and you can change it.
Rent, utility, and grocery anchors: city snapshots (Numbeo / Livingcost / portal listing samples, each dated on its line). Transport, dining, and health-buffer defaults are planning placeholders — not sourced figures — until you set your own. Conversions at RD$60.61 = US$1 (Oct 6, 2026); pesos are the real prices and dollars drift.
Your US wrap-up plan
The American side of the move — the house, the cars, the bank accounts, the paper — built only from what you told us in the stateside questions. Every fact carries its source class; what we could not verify prints as a gap, never a guess. Education only — not legal, tax, financial, or estate advice.
US-side facts: IRS Topic No. 701 and Publications 523/54, FinCEN Form 114 instructions, SSA international payment publications, and the U.S. Embassy Santo Domingo Federal Benefits Unit — checked October 6, 2026. Property-management, vacancy-clause, and storage figures are labeled secondary where they appear, with their dates; your own policy, contract, and quote are always the operative numbers.
Your safety net — if it doesn't work out
The discipline this planner teaches: arrive like a guest, commit like an owner. The trial has a legal shape, the return has a checklist, and your reserve has an honest yardstick — education only, and the parts that are our own published method are labeled as judgment, not law.
Trial and exit mechanics: Embassy of the DR in the US (Consular FAQ) and the Dirección General de Migración overstay schedule — checked October 6, 2026. Return-path facts: SSA and Medicare sources as labeled. Decision rules and the runway yardstick are Settled Overseas planning discipline, labeled where they appear.
Faith community, where you land
Ways to give back near your match
What your priorities point to
Your next steps, in order
Sequence adapted from standard relocation practice for the Dominican Republic; items marked ★ come from your answers. Confirm every legal step with a vetted Dominican immigration attorney before acting.
Your full dossier — the part that prints
What you see on this page is the sketch. The dossier turns it into a document you can hand to a spouse, an attorney, or a bank — built from your answers, with names, numbers and dated fees.
Want the full playbook behind this profile?
- The complete Dominican Republic relocation dossier — every step above, in full detail
- Document lists, fee tables, and sequences, each figure dated and sourced
- The attorney & real-estate-agent vetting playbook (interview questions, red flags)
- City-by-city chapters: healthcare access, expat density, dated cost ranges
- Free updates when Dominican rules change the numbers
- 14-day promise: if it isn't what was described, email us within 14 days — we'll make it right or refund you in full.
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Important: This interactive check and the Settled Overseas manuals are educational information only. They are not legal, immigration, tax, insurance, medical, or real-estate advice, and they are not a substitute for a licensed attorney, CPA, or insurance professional in the relevant country. Nothing here determines whether you qualify for any visa, residency route, or program. Residency thresholds, fees, and rules are stated as of their cited dates and change over time; confirm current requirements with official sources and qualified local professionals before acting. Medicare generally does not cover healthcare outside the United States — Settled Overseas explains how foreign healthcare systems work and never recommends any insurance product or enrollment decision.