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[quote=”davidd”]
a costa rican national can visit the U.S. and with his passport open up a bank account.i have 2 friends that did just that 6 months ago
[/quote]That’s really interesting. Several months ago, I, a U.S. citizen, tried to open an account at HSBC US online and was turned down because I don’t have a physical street address in the U.S. There was no way to talk them into it. A supervisor insisted that it’s against the law.
“When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
and the Wizard of Oz
who’s a dirty old man.”**[i]Smut[/i] – Tom Lehr
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tom+lehrer/smut_20138398.htmlIn the near term, it will be less expensive to dissolve your corporation than to continue paying the annual corporation tax. It might take two years to break even, but the math is on the side of avoiding the tax.
If your attorney’s charging an arm and a leg, check someone else.
Construction workers in Costa Rica perform a much broader array of tasks than the specialists who work in the U.S. The same worker who digs the footings and pours the cement will lay the block, weld the roof structure, roof the house, rough in the plumbing, and maybe do the wiring, lay the tile and paint. Painting is not a specialty skill here, so confining oneself to that part of the business would be to limit the opportunities drastically.
And then there’s the matter of the five-year wait for permanent residency so you can actually work here. And that depends upon qualifying for and acquiring temporary residency first.
Carene, the only way you could hope to teach English in Costa Rica legally, with or without some certification, would be to have your employer obtain a work permit for you from the Ministry of Labor. That can take a year or longer, and success is not assured. It would depend on their finding that there is a lack of qualified English teachers — and there is not.
Nope, my understanding is that if you owned a small bookstore and had no employee, you couldn’t run it. That is, you could not unlock the door to the public, you couldn’t sort and shelve books, you couldn’t sell books, you couldn’t sweep the floor or clean the bathroom, and you couldn’t lock the door at night.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service Code provides for universal taxation of the income of all U.S. citizens regardless where that income arises, and it provides for taxation of all income derived from any source in the U.S. regardless of the citizenship of the recipient. There are, of course, many exemptions, credits, etc.
So any income derived from Social Security, tax-deferred retirement savings, etc that is paid to any person, U.S. citizen or not, is taxable under the IRS Code. You can renounce your citizenship, but you will still be liable for taxation under the IRS Code as if you were a citizen. (There [u]may[/u] be a limit of ten years of taxation for those who renounce but I’m not sure about that.)
Sr. camby, “No” and “Yes” . . .
Any person, U.S. citizen or not, who has earned the right to a Social Security Old Age pension is entitled to receive it. There are, I think, some countries to which SS checks cannot be sent, but that’s based upon conditions in those countries and not on the recipient’s citizenship, U.S. or otherwise.
The U.S. State Department’s behavior toward Costa Ricans who are seeking tourist visas to the U.S. is, indeed, very restrictive, so renouncing one’s U.S. citizenship in favor of Costa Rican citizenship would, as you say, very likely make it much more difficult to travel to the U.S.
And really, there’s little advantage to renouncing your U.S. citizenship especially since, for the most part, you would still be liable for U.S. taxation under the IRS Code. Other than as a political/philosophical statement, what would be the point?
Crf, above, is corect. You cannot work legally here until you are granted [b]permanent[/b] residency.
You must first apply for that temporary residency status for which you qualify. That approval can take a year or longer.
Then, you must be a temporary resident for three years. Only then can you apply for permanent residency which approval can take yet another year.
So you would have to have a plan to support yourself for about five years before you could seek employment, and that assumes that you have the resources to qualify for temporary residency.
You should also be aware that wages in Costa Rica are a mere fraction of what they are in North America.
Yes, but what is the source of this information to which you allude? Where does the CAJA publish infection and readmission rates, for example? You’re not suggesting that people can rely on anecdotes, are you?
LisaMarie, you wrote: “You can ask others who are now in the CAJA system for their comments much like you find out about health resources in US. As a nurse that is how the majority of us find out about resources.”
The problems with this approach are
– that you are unlikely to be able to ask enough people for their comments to get a meaningful sample, and
– that the services of the CAJA vary considerably by location within the country and by the type of service the comments refer to.
You could, for example, ask everyone you meet about the CAJA’s emergency care but probably than fewer than one in ten will have actually used the CAJA’s emergency services in the same location(s) or for the same problems. And once you have that information, it will tell you nothing whatsoever about definitive cardiac care nor about diabetes management nor about cancer care.
What’s more, as a nurse you know that most lay people are not qualified to render judgements about the quality of the care they receive. Satisfaction surveys are notoriously misleading.
A longstanding premise in emergency medicine is that you cannot hurt a dead man. People worry, for example, that in performing CPR they may break ribs or lacerate the liver. Both are risks but lesser risks than certain death.
While it may be true that administration of anti venom to either humans or animals may induce anaphylactic shock, if the alternative outcome is certain death then the anti venom is the lesser of the two evils. That way, at least there is chance of recovery.
Renouncing one’s U.S. citizenship is absolutely NOT required in order to qualify for legal residency in Costa Rica. What’s more, even if you wanted to renounce your citizenship, it’s not a simple matter. So don’t anybody think it’s a requirement.
