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I believe the guy I use travels so you can contact him to find out if he would come to Heredia. You can tell him that Jessica de Bejuco recommended him. He installed my split/inverters last year. He is from Heredia, though I’m not sure he lives there now.
Franklin Villarreal
8556-8674Just to clarify, as a permanent resident you do only have to visit Costa Rica once a year but you have to make sure you’re not out of Costa Rica longer than a year. The year starts with your exit date. If you exit Costa Rica on December 6, 2015, you must make an entry prior to December 6, 2016. It wouldn’t be okay to visit once in 2015, then again in 2016 at a date that is more than 1 year from your exit.
Jessica
You cannot apply for citizenship after 3 years of pensionado status. You can apply for permanent residency after 3 years as a pensionado. Those things are not the same.
Jessica
They never finished the project. I know there were lawsuits against the developer, against the bank, & I haven’t heard of any resolution to it. The main office on the Costanera is totally overgrown & part of it has fallen apart/collapsed.
Jessica
You can also explore telecommuting – I own my own business that is US-based, but can run it from anywhere in the world as long as I have internet. Not sure that is something you can do with your line of work but if so, it will likely give you a much better income than what you’ll find in CR.
Jessica
Ron – Our attorney told us we had a 4-month window to complete ours. I have no idea if this is the official stance or just what she told us because she wasn’t getting her final payment from us until we had our final immigration appointment.
Jessica
I am copying/pasting info from another group for you – I did this & was able to verify my corporation was inactive before paying my tax. Hope this helps – Jessica
http://www.rnpdigital.com/index.htm
The Registro NacionalAt the top of the page go to the large buttons and choose: Consulta al Impuesto de Personas Juridicas
If you haven’t registered, it is free to do so, and I recommend everyone do this. You can then look up your paperwork and do a lot of things that would save you time and worry. Once you are registered, log on. On the next page you will see on the left hand side a list .. # 9 is “Impuestos Personas Juridicas” Click on that and the following page has a place to put the number of your corporation. 3-101-xxxxxx. You will see a page with the title: Consulta Pública de Morosidad
The information on this page includes: Active Hacienda (Active or Inactive S.A.) It should say No.
Whether it is up to date with Taxes and paperwork and also the Monto Total a Cancelar Al Dia de Hoy.
It HAS gone up a bit. It is now 100,850.00 colones for each Inactive S.A.We have our accountant write an income certification that he signs/stamps. This satisfied BCR the last three times that we’ve had to update our account info. Our accountant keeps it on file & just updates the date when we go for a new one.
CAJA also accepted the same income certification when establishing our CAJA premium in 2012. I have no idea if that would fly now with new regulations – but our carnets don’t expire for many years so we don’t have to worry about that yet.
Jessica
It’s not just dependent spouses that are getting hit with this – a newly approved resident posted on the ARCR forum that last week when they signed up for CAJA his 18-year-old dependent child, a full-time college student, was forced to get her own CAJA as well as his dependent wife.
My son turns 18 in March & that is when his carnet expires, so I’m definitely paying attention to all of this. He’ll be finishing high school & going straight into college, still our dependent, but will have to get his own CAJA according to the policy being enforced by these local offices. Luckily my carnet doesn’t expire until 2017.
Jessica
It does vary – for us, when we got our first permanent residency cedula we were given a 3-year renewal because we had been residents for about 5 years before we were finally approved. But I have friends who have been only given a 1-year renewal & another friend given a 5-year renewal. It is all related to how long you’ve already been a resident.
Jessica
You can contact the driver we use when we need one to get an idea of his price. He has a nice van & speaks English:
Randall Ramirez, Transportes VIP, 8820-0901
Jessica
Just so we’re clear, not all of Scott’s readers are retirement age. I won’t be a spring chicken in 2050 but plan on being around (I’ll turn 77 in December of that year, so it isn’t a far stretch).
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JessicaMy home is about 30 minutes south of Jaco – home prices will be lower if you get a bit away from there. You could buy a freestanding home in my neighborhood for around $125K currently (24/7 guarded community) & rent for around $800 a month long term. You’d have to cover your own electric as there aren’t many property owners with beach homes that will throw electric in with the rental price with how expensive the electric is at the beach. Be sure to consider transportation into your monthly budget. You’d be at a real disadvantage if you tried to live at our beach without a car, but you could live fine without one in Jaco & get around on bike or by taxi & rely on the bus if you want to do the tourist thing.
Jessica
My husband is paying into the pension program with our CAJA payments but we’re only 40 so we have quite a bit of time to go before we find out if he will actually collect it!
Jessica
All I can tell you is that we’re a family of 6, all permanent residents. We didn’t have to sign up for CAJA while were we temporary residents as it wasn’t a requirement for our residency back then. We’ve been members of CAJA for going on 2-1/2 years and we make one payment to CAJA that covers all 6 of us. Husband is the primary, we’re all his dependents. We’re under age 55 so our premium includes payment into a pension for husband.
I really don’t know what I’d do in your situation. Any chance you can bring a Tico friend in with you ahead of time to just feel out the situation for you?
Something that disturbs me about the CAJA requirement for residents is this total uncertainty over what your premium will be. People can talk until they are blue in the face about how it is X% of the pension because that is what the regulations say, but I know a lot of residents & no one seems to pay any type of consistent % of income, pension, whatever. It’s all over the place.
Jessica
