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Yipee….we have to go to San Jose on Thursday for our fingerprints. Maybe I can buy a car at the same time, naaaah that would be way too easy….:roll:
We have received an email from our immigration lawyer, with our residency in progress papers. We don’t need to leave every 90 days because of our visas expiring…BUT we need to leave to keep our drivers licence valid…DUMB
After changing the ownership of our home from 50% each, to 100% in my name, they accepted the house purchase as a proof of an investment acceptable for investor residency. Today we will go back to lawyer and put the shares back into 50% each…which is fine with immigration Sort of a weird way of getting around things…but I guess that’s how things work here.
Now…another strange twist regarding police reports…as investors we do NOT need to provide police reports to immigration. Even though we had them done, we didn’t need to submit them. SO….if you have a criminal record, running from the law, just purchase a house that’s acceptable for the investor requirements, and that’s all you need.
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We have been in our new home for 3 weeks now, so we are pretty much experts on everything…….. NOT..<:
We are applying for residency via the investor program
( Inversionista )We have submitted our Canadian documents to our CR immigration lawyers and all was going well….until we found out that because our house purchase was barely over the 200k minimum, and we both held 50% of the shares…no one person, owned a property over 200k. So back to our lawyer, and re-assign 100% of the shares into my name, to show a purchase of over 200k. I will apply, and my wife can apply as my beneficiary. Now we are waiting for word on how that’s going…our documents are dated valid until Dec 6th, so we have time. They just need to be fully submitted by that time.
Our immigration lawyer told us, that CAJA now will determine that all investors are making a minimum of $2000 a month,and they will now take 10% for SS in CR. So $200 a month and we are covered for insurance…BUT, our lawyer said they are appealing that decision and CAJA can not arbitrarily decide how much a corporation makes…so still fightin on that part. But 10% of 2000 is a hell of alot better than 13% of 1 of our pensions.
On a side note…spoke with an US expat, and he was pissed because now Immigration may require a full FBI background check, along with a police report, His documents expire next month, so he may need to start all over again…
…..just sayin what i heard.
Will keep posting our progress, as we are informed…[quote=”pebo1″]Depending on where you live, if CRWifi reaches you it’s well worth the money—-about $45 for basic and professional service. We’ve had it one year, very reliable and emails or calls will be answered in an expedient manner.[/quote]
We miss CR Wifi by about 20 miles…gonna try DSL through the phone line and see what kind of speed I can get.
Thanks all[quote=”vriggle”]All of a sudden it seems like almost everybody we know is leaving Costa Rica to return to the US. They say that after a few years, they realized they didn’t want to be there “forever” so back they went. It’s scaring us as we continue to plan to retire because this is NOT a reversible decision for us. I so much want to hear from people who have been in CR for more than 7 years and still plan to stay. Are you out there?[/quote]
We have been here 9 days…so far so good 😕
[quote=”costaricafinca”]No…you will just have to grin and bear it!
We have no choice but to use Kolbi 3g and it is [b]awful[/b]! So to us, and ICE phone line and internet would be [i]nearly[/i] as good as winning the lottery.:roll:
I have read recently, that some of the cable companies and those offering internet access will not provide service to non-residents, i.e. as having a[i] cedula[/i] in your hand.[/quote]Thanks for info<;
ICE requested a copy of the past invoice from the house, passports, and a copy of our cedula ( we have started immigration process) …then they went ahead and set up the install. Luckily we were able to get this done in the small town of Filadelfia, so it went smooth:roll:[quote=”imxploring”][quote=”waggoner41″][quote=”ratus”]Greetings all, we have been searching the net and this site for a definitive answer as to how much does CAJA cost? I have read that it is based on income, but I CAN’T seem to find the percentage that is used. I saw 13% but that seems high ….if for example you have a 3000 a month pension do you pay $390 a month? Is that for a couple?
TIA[/quote]
Wife and I both receive monthly SSA totaling near US$3000. We pay CAJA about $122 or 4%.[/quote]
A few questions to clarify your numbers.
1. When did you process your residency application, was it before the new rule requiring mandatory participation and the apparent change in the way the residency applications where being written showing the income amount not just a statement that you met the minimum requirement?
2. How much income did you show on your application, did you include both SSA incomes (for you and your wife) or just one which was enough to satisfy the $1000/month income requirement?
3. Are you utilizing or did you join under the group rate that ARCR was able to offer for participation in CAJA?
[i]#1 Answer =[/i] It was after.
[i]#2 Answer = [/i]We are Canadian and 8 years away from our government pensions, the only pension, for now, is my wife’s, in the amount of ~$4000,00 / month.( gross)
[i]#3 Answer =[/i] ARCR so longer offers group rates.
But we do qualify for investor residency and are in the process of getting quotes on the CAJA costs, applying via the investor route.
[quote=”bob switzer”][quote=”ratus”]Thanks for the link…I am thinking CFL is available on ESPN3, which is shown at Zi Lounge downtown Coco. I gave my Rider shirt to one the waiters there, who said the games were sometimes shown there. So if I can’t get it at home, I can just watch the game and have a beer at Zi’s…Im gonna have to temper my cheering as it sometimes gets a bit “boisterous” :roll:[/quote]
I see on http://www.riderfans.com one guy posted where you could find a site to watch online. just go down the page until you see his blog
just click on forum to get to the main forum[/quote]Gracias!
Thanks for the link…I am thinking CFL is available on ESPN3, which is shown at Zi Lounge downtown Coco. I gave my Rider shirt to one the waiters there, who said the games were sometimes shown there. So if I can’t get it at home, I can just watch the game and have a beer at Zi’s…Im gonna have to temper my cheering as it sometimes gets a bit “boisterous” 🙄
Is the CAJA rate based on gross income? Because my wife’s pension is $4100 a month gross, and then the CAJA rate will rise to $520 a month…As a Canadian, that’s a hard pill to swallow..pun intended 😯
Another option available to us, is residency as an investor, our purchase price on our home exceeds the 200k minimum…does anyone know how CAJA will decide the rate if you get residency by the inversionista route. Gracias.
[quote=”Cancertomnpdx”][quote=”ratus”]Thanks for the reply…..hhmmmm, need to come up with a new plan. We have 1 pension in one name, that pension is 3000 a month.
If you are eligible for Social Security use only that document for both of you. You get that notarized at the US Embassy San José at the Social Security Section. It took me 20 minutes in October with my appointment. Full information is on the Embassy website under benefits. If you are already drawing your monthly payout from SSA, you still will be to get your official letter at the Embassy. The letter they send you for your award in the States will not do it. It is not what the Costa Rica government requires. I hope you both are able to substitute you Social Security payout for the current pension. Also, have you thought to ask your pension fund to give you an a notarized award letter for just the amount you need for two people? That should be that difficult for them to do that for you I would think.[/quote]
We are Canadian and are 8 years away from any government pension. The pension letter we have also states the pension benefit before taxes, gawd i hope they DON’T base the premium on that.
