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No, you cannot perform any physical task in your own business, but you can receive a salary from it.
The text below was copied from [url=http://www.residencyincostarica.com/questions.html]Residency in Cost Rica[/url]
[i]”However, you can manage your own business and financial affairs, including being self-employed as a consultant or managing your own business or corporation”.[/i]He was ‘caught’ by migration during their periodic ‘sweeps’ and was held until a lawyer intervened.
Because his application was ‘in process’ and having a Tica wife and family, he narrowly missed being deported.
Real estate agents advertise a huge amount of B&B’s for sale, and people purchase them and do not realize that ‘legally’ they are not permitted to ‘cook breakfast and clean up after their [i]paying[/i] guests’.This has and will continue to be enforced, either by disgruntled employees or with when migracion is prowling around…
I know someone who was ‘held’ by [i]migracion[/i], when he proceeded to lock up his establishment one night when his employee was in the process of throwing up in the bathroom …
This man had a successful business with 30+ employees, married and had children with a Tica but hadn’t yet got the official word for him to work, due to other mitigating circumstances.Once again, I will say the first step is checking out the legalities of living here.
Read the info on http://www.residencyincostarica.com which explains that you canot work legally here until you have Permanent residency statusI read this , where it was posted [i]”Ivy (ARCR staffer) mentioned that COSEVI made a change this Monday that may affect everyone who doesn’t have a cedula.
People who don’t have their cedulas will no longer be allowed to obtain a CR driver’s license using only their passports. For those with Comprobante Requistos who are awaiting their cedulas and who don’t already have their CR driver’s license, they will need to leave the country every 90 days in order to “reset” their home-country driver’s licenses.
Those of us who are in the process of residency and who already have our CR driver’s licenses with our passport #s will not be affected”.[/i]
How many residents have ‘chimed in’ with the good experiences with CAJA not including emergency services?
How many would choose to use CAJA rather than private facilities?
Hospitals here, do not have volunteers and often patients have to wait until family visit, to be fed if unable to do it by themselves. Also why family ‘choose’ spend a night by the sick-bed and to take the dirty laundry home to wash.
There are many, many more [i]Ticos[/i] using private facilities than there are, expats.
These facilities could not continue to exist with out ‘locals’.
They definitely do not ‘survive’ on medical tourism.
We helped put a young woman through university to get her nursing degrees, finishing a few years ago, and she has only been able to get private ‘in home’ work.[b]camby, [/b]it is important to recognize your wife’s hesitation, because coming here without you both ‘being on board’ is the recipe for disaster.
Too many have come as a couple and only one of them returning.
Maybe time will make make a difference.
This is why it is important to come and see the country, first hand and not just pack up your belongings.First step is to read the [i]rules and reg’s[/i] needed to live here, Try http://www.residencyincostarica.com & http://www.therealcostarica.com which will explain that you cannot legally work here until you have Permanent residency which can take approx 4 years.
Also, be awarer that salaries are very low…and private education, which most expats prefer, for your children is expensive.
If you do move, pick your chosen schools before committing to a home.
Is there a problem for the airline not accepting the breed of dogs?
I remember reading a request on a post, where a pilot had responded and said a larger plane, possibly a small jet or pressurized plane with a very long range would be required, then you’ll still be required to make a few stops in various countries along the way for fuel, clearing customs, immigration, etc at each stop.
If using a small plane, possibly a Cessna 206 that could carry multiple animals in their crates comfortably, he said, it would still take two full days to get here.
$12,000 may be a good estimate … or more like a expensive one.So you would still need to purchase crates and the dogs would need to be in them, the entire time.
You would be required to use the service of a broker.
The pilot also stated that he would never even consider transporting his own pets this way, sent them here, on a commercial carrier.
I really advise you or anyone else, to hold onto their money until
A. You have actually seen and stood on the lot
B. Can see that all required utilities are already in place
C. Preferably, they can show at least some completed homes[b]Don’t put your funds down after seeing a fancy gate….[/b]… as there are still many other gates available all over the country.
That is exactly what I meant. Problem is, that one is only permitted to use the one in their immediate neighborhood, so one doesn’t get to ‘see/use’ other, ‘possibly better – possibly worse’ facilities.
But in each case, one of the consistent concerns is the length of time waiting for an appointment or referral with a specialist, as this would affect them all which could take a year or two.
I had a descent experience after being in an accident, but was taken to a hospital in another area, although when I was discharged the following morning I was not provided with any follow up care or advice, but for general care at our local Ebais, a clinic, it is basic and clean, but not falling apart.
I read yesterday elsewhere, [i]”… that now, having Temporary resident status, does not require that you be in CR for at least 4 months per year.”[/i] Does anyone know any more about this? If so, has a specific time been specified? And has the time period for Investor, etc also been changed/eliminated?
While it doesn’t affect me, some of us may want to ‘file this information’ for future use.My previous post was [i]supposed [/i]to refer to a ‘upcoming change’ that the lawyer had been told by immigration but as yet hadn’t been implemented.
* I did see [url=www.residencyincostarica.com/residency.html]online[/url], where it states “Once approved, the resident agrees to live in Costa Rica for at least one (1) day per year”…so that question is now moot.
