Anybody know how slow Immigration is?

I have similar question. I knew my CR attorney is not good in immigration proceeding and I got request from him to be in CR on March 1 to make fingerprints. I arrived and when long line was behind, immigration officer said we have a rule, after receiving documents left them on the table and don’ touch. After one month we can open and assign a file number and you must make fingerprints. I returned back to home, and buy new tickets on the end of March on two weeks. Bumps! It came on Esters and all govenment facilities were closed week before and week after. It was exactly our two weeks. More of them we got information from our attorney that 30 days delay to open documents is not calindar days, it is working days (so all weekends and hollidays must be excluded). we cannot stay and wait and fly back to home. We asking attorney to get exactly date and frame time in which we must be there, but attorney is still quiet. I know the Pura Vida is principial of life, but … my mistake was that i got a wrong attorney, probably as you. Please could someone give recommendation good attorney and what is going with oppening documents in immigration office? thank you!:roll:

costaricafinca is exactly right. The increase in applications has surely been significant but there’s been no increase in resources to process them. And one can only conclude that Immigration is characterized by chaos.

Some valid applications go through in s few months, as ours did. Other equally valid applications take two years or longer. There seems to be no logic to the situation, at least none that is discernible from the outside.

We’ve been waiting almost a year and a half for our permanent residency which our attorney, a residency specialist, said would take six months.

Go figure . . .

Search for residency specialists such as [url=http://www.arcr.net/]ARCR[/url] and realize that you will probably have to return to your home country and get the necessary papers needed to apply. These must be dated within the [i]6 months when they are accepte[/i]d by immigration.

you must mean javier zavaleta, who is in l.a. and his sister lives here in sjo. in my opinion, they are the best and the most efficient, and worth every colon because they actually get it done and in record time without all the screws up everyone else complains about. http://www.residencyincostarica.com

Also remember that “investor” is individual, so if you are married it does not cover your spouse even if you are successful in achieving residency via the “home and property” route. I have heard and read a lot of discussion about people pursuing that route but have not yet heard of anyone successful in doing so.

[quote=”pranaspakeywest”]I am also beginning my residency process, or at least looking to begin.
I realize that this has been covered in the past, however, I am looking to get an updated recommendation for an immigration attorney.
I am already living here, doing the 90 day thing, and I am ready to throw my hat into the ring.
Of course I want to se if there is an attorney out there that can get this done quicker then sooner.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks![/quote]

Javier is great and extremely efficient, our residency took 6 months once the paperwork was all gathered together.

during our last trip to the States (April) I sent off all of our documents to the Secretaries of State in Texas and Florida for “apostile” authentication. Both states completed their authentication within one week and returned the documents to my daughter’s home in Georgia, who then forwarded the combined package of documents on to the CR Consulate in Washington D.C.
I had previously called the Consulate’s office and they told me that they would review the documents and if all was order it generally takes them less than a week to authenticate the authentication of the respective Secretary of State, and if all is in order the documents would be returned to the return address in the envelope provided (in this case, my daughter’s home in Georgia).
Having not heard anything or received anything after a week or so, I started calling and was told numerous times they had no record of receipt of any of my documents. Finally, on 25-May I was told “Oh yes, we received them on 13-May and all appear to be in order. You should receive them by the end of this week or early next week. Your file number in our office is #****”
Well, the end of last week came and went and the early part of this week has come and gone. Of course we had the Memorial Day holiday, so I’m sure that they took that day off, so I am hoping that the package gets to my daughter by week’s end.
As soon as she gets it, she will “overnight” it to our attorney in San Jose who will then start the submittal process on our behalf (with Power of Attorney). I guess that is when the real frustrations begin….
Just in case anyone wants to know, the Consulate’s office in D.C. only accepts phone calls until 2:00PM Eastern Time, and the email address they have on their answering machine doesn’t work.