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My husband is already in San Jose & will apply for Pensionada residency. I saw there has been much discussion about paying bills,etc. Am I to understand that unless you are a resident you can forget a checking account? For the time being, is it best to continue to have check deposited in US bank & use debit card here to get cash??? Bills are then paid in cash? Can I get more information about paying bills through Red Cross? Also, since my husband spent $60.00 to have his underwear washed, he will be looking for a place that sells inexpensive furniture. Can anyone help there also?
If you are looking for amazingly priced furniture, you must visit the Aliss stores.
There is one on the East (highway that goes towards Cartago) side in the TerraMall and also one about 300M from MultiPlaza in Escazu
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comDeb, you can pay your bills at any bank with cash. If they won’t take dollars, have your dollars converted to colones and pay with them. Can’t say about the Red Cross.
A debit card with the Plus and Cirrus logos on the bank will work in virtually any Costa Rican ATM. Your bank may charge you for the privilege. It does not appear that checks are commonly used here in Costa Rica. If you pay your bills through the bank teller, then when you need a check, you can get the bank to issue one from your account there, if you have one. We’ve just built our second house that way.
Deb,
The new immigration regs state that no application for residency status will be accepted when your on a tourist visa. I took this to mean that residency applications had to be submitted prior to your arrival.
Tell me how it goes with your husband. Maybe I missinterpreted it.
My husband retired early in the US & receives a monthly pension check. Our understanding is he can apply for residency under the pensionado status.
There is quite a bit of information about ‘residency’ in this forum, there is a lot of mis-information everywhere and the Costa Rican immigration department is just total chaos at the moment so it’s not easy getting it right.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comThe website following has all the info. You can apply for residency while still in the US or in Costa Rica.
http://www.residencyincostarica.com/questions.htmlThat website’s info is outdated. Try
http://www.migracion.go.cr/planificacion/index.html
“Reglamento Ley de Migracion y Extranjeria”
(Spanish)
Sorry Marcia. Welcome to your first big hurdle.
Here’s the pertinent excerpt from the new rules. I don’t have time to translate it all for you now, but it does say that all applications for residency must be made at the Costa Rican Consulate in your country of origin. Perhaps if you call the CR Consulate nearest you they can give you a list of requirements in English.
TITULO TERCERO
De las categorías migratorias
CAPITULO PRIMERO
De los residentes permanentes y de los residentes temporales
Artículo 58.- Para obtener el status de residente permanente en el país, el extranjero deberá cumplir con los siguientes requisitos:
a) Solicitud del interesado dirigida al Director General de Migración, presentada en las oficinas del Consulado de Costa Rica de su país de origen o residencia.
b) En el mismo escrito deberá designarse un apoderado residente en Costa Rica e indicarse las razones o motivos por los cuales el solicitante, desea residir permanentemente en el país y señalar casa u oficina dentro del perímetro judicial de San José, en donde recibir notificaciones. No se recibirán las solicitudes que no cumplan con este requisito.
c) Aportar certificación de nacimiento, de antecedentes penales, de matrimonio si el solicitante fuere casado, títulos académicos y de estudios realizados o de idoneidad para el ejercicio de otras actividades. La certificación de nacimiento deberá contener el nombre de los progenitores.
d) Fotocopia certificada del pasaporte incluyendo todos sus folios.
e) Aportar certificación de nacimiento de cada uno de los hijos menores amparados a su solicitud.
f) Aportar cuatro fotografías de frente de fecha reciente, tamaño pasaporte.Artículo 58 Bis.- En casos excepcionales, en que para el extranjero sea imposible materialmente presentar las certificaciones de antecedentes penales y de nacimiento con el nombre de sus padres, estipuladas en el artículo 58 del presente reglamento por no emitir las autoridades civiles de su país de origen dicho documento u otras debidamente fundamentadas, podrá omitirse de ese requisito previa gestión por escrito del interesado donde se demuestre de manera fehaciente a criterio de la Dirección General, tal imposibilidad. La procedencia de una petición en ese sentido será analizada por la Dirección General de Migración y en esos casos muy calificados el Director podrá someterlo al Consejo de Migración, para definir lo que corresponda.
(Así adicionado por el artículo 1° del decreto ejecutivo N° 29878-G de 25 de setiembre del 2001, publicado en La Gaceta N° 207 de 29 de octubre del 2001)Artículo 59.- Todos los documentos exigidos deberán venir debidamente autenticados por la autoridad consular costarricense respectiva y los documentos que no hubiesen sido emitidos en español, deberán aportar la correspondiente traducción a este idioma.
(Así derogado por el artículo 4° del decreto ejecutivo N° 32696-G-MTSS publicado en La Gaceta N° 201 de 19 de octubre de 2005)Here’s the translation in English”
I TITLE THIRD Of the migratory categories I CAPITULATE FIRST Of the permanent residents and the temporary residents Article 58. – In order to obtain the status of permanent resident in the country, the foreigner will have to fulfill the following requirements: a) Request of the interested one directed to the Chief of a main directorate of Migration, presented/displayed in the offices of the Consulate of Costa Rica of its country of origin or calls to account. b) In the same writing will have to designate a resident proxy in Costa Rica and to indicate the reasons or reasons by which the applicant, wishes to reside permanently in the country and to indicate to house or office within the judicial perimeter of San jOse, in where to receive notifications. The requests will not be received that do not fulfill this requirement. c) Aportar certification of birth, criminal records, marriage if the applicant will be married, academic titles and of made studies or suitability for the exercise of other activities. The birth certification will have to contain the name of the ancestors. d) Photocopy certified of the passport including all its folios. e) To contribute certification of birth of each one of the protected smaller children to its request. f) Aportar four photographies front of recent date, so large passport. Article 58 Bis. – In exceptional cases, in that for the foreigner it is impossible materially to present/display the certifications of criminal records and of birth with the name of its parents, stipulated in article 58 of the present regulation not to emit the civilian authorities of its country of origin this document or others properly based, management of the interested one will be able to be omitted in writing of that previous requirement where is demonstrated of fehaciente way to criterion of the Main directorate, such impossibility. The origin of a request in that sense will be analyzed by the Main directorate of Migration and in those cases very described the Director it will be able to put under it the Council of Migration, to define what corresponds. (Thus added by the article 1° of the executive decree N° 29878-G of 25 of September of the 2001, published in the Newspaper N° 207 of 29 of October of the 2001) Article 59. – All the demanded documents will have to come properly authenticated by the respective Costa Rican consular authority and the documents that had not been emitted in Spanish, will have to contribute the corresponding translation to this language. (Thus countermanded by the article 4° of the executive decree N° 32696-G-MTSS published in the Newspaper N° 201 of 19 of October of 2005)So pretty much that’s what we already told you. you will need to start gathering your documents and have them authenticated in the States before submitting them to the CR consulate who then forwards them to Migracion.
I’m feeling more than a litle dumb Maravilla. I apparecaite all the feedback but fail to understand what you mean by “authenticated in the States.” Will you please explain and then I’m out of here. 🙂
Also refer to: http://www.costarica-embassy.org
Harvey
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