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The free and guarded parking lot is located at the end of the street where the SUR factory is located. Superba is on the corner. If you park in front on the main road, it’s a hassle, you need to pay and it’s quite a walk back to the Cosevi office.
Main gate opens at 7am but the license renewal office doesn’t open until 8am. I arrived at 6:45am and was the 15th person in line. At 8am when we were all allowed to enter, there were only about 30 people in total. My early arrival wasn’t worth it.
If your cedula or ID numbers have changed since your last license was issued, you must go to the Cosevi administrative office in Paso Ancho for them to make the change in the MOPT data base before you go to Cosevi in La Uruca.
Direction to Cosevi in Paso Ancho: 600 meters norte of La Guacamaya on the Paso Ancho rotunda. Or, 500 meters sur from the Hospital de Mujeres, just around the corner from the train station.
Cosevi is a white building with a lot of blue trim on the west side of street. They require your new ID and your old license and then you answer some questions and sign a document and they give you a form that you need to take to the Cosevi office in La Uruca.
I tried using my certified letter from Migracion that indicates my old and new cedula numbers, but Cosevi will not accept that certificate.
The day before my trip to Cosevi in La Uruca, I completed the following and took these documents with me.
1. I went to my local doctor and paid 15000 for the medical certificate (dictamen). My doc asked me what blood type I had, but I didn’t know.
2. I went to my local laboratorio and paid 4500 for a blood exam to determine my blood type (grupo Rh).
3. I paid the 10000 license renewal fee at BNCR.At Cosevi in La Uruca, the guard inspects your ID, bank payment receipt and medical report to verify that your ID numbers all match before giving you a number to enter the office.
Once you pass his inspection, it’s just a matter of getting to the head of the line and into a license examiner’s office.
After that, you receive your new license in about 20 minutes and then you’re done for the next 5 years.
I have to my DL number changed, so i appreciate the directions to the office in SJO, but i was also told by MOPT in San Ramon, that once i get that piece of paper, i can get my license renewed at the MOPT office here.
[quote=”crhomebuilder”]If your cedula or ID numbers have changed since your last license was issued, you must go to the Cosevi administrative office in Paso Ancho for them to make the change in the MOPT data base before you go to Cosevi in La Uruca.[/quote]
I got my first license with my passport and the second with my cedula. Similar ID change, same process.
here’s the pressing question:
if my passport number hasn’t changed, and that is the number on my driver’s license, do i have to go to Paso Ancho? My neighbor said he had his driver’s license renewed in San Ramon with the same passport number he had for the first driver’s license.
[quote=”maravilla”]here’s the pressing question:
if my passport number hasn’t changed, and that is the number on my driver’s license, do i have to go to Paso Ancho? My neighbor said he had his driver’s license renewed in San Ramon with the same passport number he had for the first driver’s license.[/quote]
The need to go to Paso Ancho would be a change in ID number. If you got your previous license with your passport and now have your cedula you have to go to Paso Ancho. Your new ID number is the number on your cedula.
If you got your previous license with your cedula and the cedula number has changed you have to go to Paso Ancho
My wife recently renewed her residency after two years but the cedula number is the same. If she had a drivers license she would have no need to go to Paso Ancho. This leaves me to question whether cedula numbers change on renewal.
i HAD my cedula when i got my first driver’s license, and as i mentioned, my friend got his license renewed WITH his passport, which is also what he used for his first license. And no, i don’t think the cedula numbers change. that is a permanent number assigned to you. i am going to go to the MOPT office here in San Ramon and make sure i HAVE to go to Paso Ancho.
When immigration changed from the old booklet style cedula to the new hard plastic type and did some other strange number stuff we got new numbers. I went from a cedula # that started with 175…. to one that starts with 184…. which means that license #s change and not only that but all records…CCSS, banks, credit cards and so on have to be revised. Ah, the burocracy but I guess paperwork provides jobs. I just hope that the don’t change their mind and change back. As I get older I don’t know if I can remember all the new material.
[quote=”maravilla”]i HAD my cedula when i got my first driver’s license, and as i mentioned, my friend got his license renewed WITH his passport, which is also what he used for his first license. And no, i don’t think the cedula numbers change. that is a permanent number assigned to you. i am going to go to the MOPT office here in San Ramon and make sure i HAVE to go to Paso Ancho.[/quote]
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