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We are planning to move to Costa Rica next month (applying residency with Javier). However, as far as I know, a round-trip ticket is needed to be able to go.
Is this correct? Is it possible to just get a one-way ticket since we are applying for residency?
Thanks,
Ibarra
Please ask Javier about this as he will know for sure. It’s all about timing. If your paperwork has been filed and you have stamped documents saying they have been filed then you may be able to get just the one-way, but there is also the airlines to deal with because they often will not let you fly one-way without proof that you can legally stay there.
Are you sure it’s the airlines? Or is the immigration in C.R.? I can’t see how the airlines would care. One way is a better deal for them a lot of the times.
Immigration has never checked to see if anyone in my family has return tickets. I have a daughter who just got married to a Costa Rican and they live in C.R. She flys back and forth with return tics out of C.R. with no trouble even though she has just started the process of becoming legal there. I’ve met a few Americans who are living there as tourists who do the same thing.
I don’t think anyone will check and you’d sure have a good reason not to have a return tic. If they did hassle you I guess you’d have to go over to the counter and buy a return ticket back to the US and use it for your next visit home.
I spoke to immigration last month about returning to CR in this manner. I do not have residency although it is applied for. They told me that this is not good enough, you actually have to have the residency completed. So they told me I required a ticket out of CR if I re-enter.
But, immigration doesn´t have a system to verify if you have a return ticket as you enter CR. Their system is simply if they ask you at the counter for proof, but I doubt they do this. The airlines are the ones that may request this and maybe even require proof, not immigration, since the airlines adhere to immigration policies set by each country. Each airline probably handles this differently.
I just returned from a trip abroad and neither the airline ( TACA) or immigration asked me for proof of a return ticket and I didn´t have one. I am prepared to purchase one if needed at the counter in case I am the exception one day.
OK… I went through this with American Airlines last Feb. THEY say the US govt REQUIRES them to insist on a return ticket to board the flight from the States. BULL PUCKEY!!!! They are the only airlines I have found which claim this. I usually carry an open bus ticket from San Jose to Nicaragua, and this served me for years til the last trip down. Just getting out of CR was not sufficient!!! My Govt sees fit to require me to possess a ticket back??? What if I want to explore Central America by bus on the way home? I bought the return ticket, then canceled it at the CR airport before I even left the terminal upon arrival, as per advise by the AA ticket agent in Miami!!!
Jerry in La Suiza
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