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hmm good question,
I will check on this, I work in the Paragauyan US embassy and I have never seen anyone that is not from the embassy use the mail service. The problem will be the issue of clearance into the embassy compound.
Also all of the APOs are now being switched over to DPOs.
I think you should go! You will really understand what you have in the U.S. after you have been in the Middle East! Just don’t think the U.S. Embassy is going to bail you out if the —– hits the fan! You talk about being under the umbrella of the U.S. Embassy, think twice if you get into any kind of trouble. You are going to go there to make money you have to take the gamble, dont expect the U.S. tax payers to pay for a C130 to come in and save your life if the boarders get sealed off and you are on the wrong side of the boader.
That is a way to look at it through rose colored glasses! You can send as many community activist or bible thumping missionary’s out to the poor little countries like Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras or any African country and try to eradicate poverty but some day you will have to wake up and look at the world as it is! Costa Rica is at the top of the heap when it comes to less people in poverty in Central America how ever you will always have families out on the streets begging. If you think you will be able to change that you will be at a disappointment, you will also be looked as just another gringo trying to change Costa Rica.
You don’t know how many times me and my wife have seen Christian bible thumpers come to Costa Rica and think they are doing the world a great thing by putting a roof on a ticos house. Its embarrassing when the ticos sit back and laugh at them.
Oh god grow up,
If you think that Costa Rica has poverty you really need to get out more, go north to Nica land or come south to where I am at in Paraguay. The world is full of poverty and you will never be able to stop it! It is a fact of life!
hhaha…. 30 dollars,
well im sorry but you got ripped off… I know this because my wifes family runs the company that you most likly got your docters certificit from… There are only two places to get your doctors approval in that area and my wifes family has over 80% of the biz.. I can tell you they don’t charge 30 dollars a person.
Sorry but none of you know what true poverty is! I bet if you ask a person from Haiti they will tell you what it means!
I have been living here in Paraguay since October and even here where it is poorest country in South America has it that bad.
Or when you have to sell your own daughter or son just to pay for food for the rest of the family… that is poor!
7 years ago my wife and I married in Costa Rica, (she is a Tica). She is now finally get around to getting her citizenship but that is because we have to other wise she would lose her permanent residency. This is because at the moment we are living in Paraguay for the next year or so. We did not do the Fiancé visa because at that time we wanted to have her family involved and for us it was easier to do the paper work in Costa Rica. The biggest issue we had was a J1 visa that she had entered into the U.S. prior to our marriage.
As to the other issue that were brought up about the green card girls .. well I see it as the same as in the states when a women marries a man for security which is 90% of the time.
My biggest recommendation to you is take your time.. travel a lot to Costa Rica to date.. and meet the family!!!!
Edited on Apr 24, 2008 13:13
Hmmm… you know many ticos don’t make $600. a month with a pensionado. My mother in-law a Tica only makes 150.00 from her husbans SS (he died 6 years ago). Then she makes about $550.00 from the family biz. She owns her own house that cost about $35,000.00 5 years ago (normal two bedroom 1 bathroom). She has six dogs and now car and is 66 years old. Only the forigners will have to up that figure because most won’t live it the normal tico neighborhoods and lower their expectations of living such as tico housing ver gringo housing.
Dominic, does your husband work for your Embassy? If do your will be coverd by your goverment health insurance.
Well brad,
I have to STRONGLY disagree with you… almost every country including COSTA RICA need and want the help from the U.S. …
I have participated in the help here in Paragauy for yellow fever out break. If they didn’t have the U.S. they would not have recived the valuable supplys and medicine to help over 2.0 million people.
Also have you ever thought what the rest of South and Central America would say about Americans if they didn’t help their countries. Do you think that it would creat more resentment about gringos or less?????????
By the way … I don’t have to read about if I am in the middle of it.
To tell you the truth scott, I had a meeting this last week with USAID and the Peace corps… I am NOT impressed. USAID only contracts out all of their work to NGO groups and the Peace Corps only teach the natives to think… like they can’t do it on their own….
I like that “unusual circumstances” I tell that to my Tica wife all the time! hahaha (this is one of the only ways to get a work permit is to be married to a Costa Rican)
Interesting thought process!
I would say that I don’t agree with it because in all of these countries we have done more good than harm. Even today events that are taking place for humanitarian aid is enormous and you wouldn’t even know how much money is being put into these countries by the U.S. In all of South and Central America we the U.S are responding to countries needs while the rest of the world lets them flounder.
There was a up raising at one time with Johny Walker! (U.S. invader).
Again my comment is correct that most gringos are not true adventures, meaning if it is good for the mass it must be a great deal.
