Retired Residents or Pensianado’s is the right immigration status for someone that has a permanent pension. This only requires $600 per month income from a permanent pension source or retirement fund. You can combine pensions for one person.
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Investor Resident or Inversionista status requires an investment of $50,000 US in one of the approved sectors such as tourism or export. Different types of business can require up to $200,000 investment, you will need to speak with an attorney to see which sector your business would be in.
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Many XPats swear by private mail services. I use one myself and have since I’ve been here and love it. I have 2 mailboxes in Miami one PO Box and one Street address. Anytime I want to order a book from Amazon or a CD from Walmart I can have it shipped to the street [...]
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You can drive in Costa Rica on your US drivers license for the first 90 days that you are here. After that you are driving illegally. The solution to this problem is to get your Costa Rica drivers license within the first 90 days that you are here. This is a simple but timely process. [...]
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There are so many books to choose from when looking at books on Costa Rica. You have your tour guides then you have books with truly useful information. I found this to be the most accurate, informative and useful book out there for someone thinking of moving to Costa Rica or has already moved and [...]
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So your thinking of moving to Costa Rica? There is a lot of things to consider but immigration and how to live here legally should be at the top of your list. There are several different types of visas but the most popular are Rentista, Pensinado and Investor status. The laws and requirements for each [...]
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Giving directions in Costa Rica is challenging to say the least. First you MUST know your north, south, east and west or you’ll end up at the beach when your heading for somewhere in the Central Valley. Directions go something like this…100 meters east of El Pava Restaurant, 250 meters from where the big old [...]
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If you have children, you will have birthday parties. This particular weekend we had 2 parties in one day at the same time. Time to clone the kids so you can make it to both without offending anyone. The thing about the parties here are that EVERYONE comes….the parents, the siblings and sometimes even the [...]
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While you might suspect, Costa Rican’s don’t celebrate Memorial Day. The American schools do take off this day but for the rest of Costa Rica, it’s business as usual. Makes for a good long weekend for the Americans at the beach when most everyone else is working. During holiday weeks or weekends, it seems that [...]
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When you move to a new country, where nothing is known and familiar, your routines get mightily disrupted. Suddenly, nothing is routine. The loss of routine means the time and energy that were available for higher order, more sophisticated tasks now goes to basic coping and survival functions. With the minutiae of everday life now [...]
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