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[quote=”costaricabill”]OK, I have the document “Comprobante Requisitos, Expediente No. 135-xxxxxx”, so what do I now do with it?
I brought it with me for my visit to Florida – so when I fly back into SJO next Monday,1. do I hand that document to the immigration officer along with my passport?
2. am I to expect any different type of stamp in my passport?
3. will the “en tramite” status already be in the immigration system, or does he have to make some entry?I am just trying to find out what to expect, so if any of you have been through the “first time re-entry en tramite” process, I sure would appreciate your recollections and/or advice.[/quote]
I went to the States last September not knowing what to expect. They never asked for the document going or coming. The immigration officer is simply stamping your passport that you have arrived. Just keep the Expediente handy with you wherever you go.
With the Expedient in possession you can prove you are in process. I got caught by trafigos once without the Expediente and you don’t even want to go there.
Your next step will probably be to satisfy the traffic police by getting your drivers license within the 90 days.
Welcome home.
[quote=”minuit”]While you wait for someone to help, you can put them in a little box with a towel. You mix one cup of milk with the yellow part of an egg and a tablespoon of corn syrup, or honey if you have, and give it to them with a syringe or o toy baby bottle every 2-3 hours.
After a couple of weeks, they will start eating by themselves
Good luck !!![/quote]minuit, Scott probably has an application open for welovecostarica.com emergency vet advice.
I didn’t even stop to think that it might take some time to get help. Good thinking.
[quote=”DavidCMurray”]We didn’t have any special vaccinations, wag goner. Who told you that you did? And what were those vaccinations?[/quote]
Note above. We asked the Costa Rican consulte in LA but we didnt travel until September 2006.
Regulations change so fast down here that I advised them to check with the consulate.The only one I remember was for dengue.
[quote=”ticorealtor”]I think people don’t want to say anything when the U.S. does good things!
[url=http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/photo.php?pid=7089285&fbid=488341273227&id=71189598227]U.S embassy[/url][/quote][b]In God we trust but no other.[/b]
When the Costa Rican Fuerza Publica seems to be doing a better job of interdiction than the FBI and the country is dedicated to medical care and education for all, the stated reasons for this “visit” do seem slighly contrived.
Although there are some here who can use humanitarian assistance why does the U.S. ignore their own in need of humanitarian assistance?
[quote=”JUMI”]Hello,
We are a family of 3 (me, husband + 1 year old) planning a trip to CR Feb. 2011. I’d like to stay for a month and get a sense of the culture. Because we will be traveling with our 1 year old son, I am wondering if there is something I should know beforehand, or be concerned about. Any recommended vaccinations? Tips? If you traveled with a small kid, please share your experience. Thank you![/quote]
Check with the Costa Rican consulate to find out if there are any requirements. When we originally came to Costa Rica there were several required vaccinations or injections. We didn’t bring children with us.
As Scott said “Don’t assume anything.”
[quote=”tazman”]Our neighbors dog killed a mother opossum and there are babies that still have closed eyes…can anyone suggest how to help these babies or who can help???[/quote]
Do you have a local vet you can call on for help or advice. There is an excellent vet here in Ciudad Colon who provides all kinds of assistance for us. There should be one near you.
[quote=”Crawbuick”]Hey waggoner41 I do have a 401k but immigration will not accept my letter from my UBS Financial Services, I do not get Social Security yet. So I think as you, I am here I want to live in this country no one foot in one foot out. Have you found any reasonable trips out of Costa Rica to comply with the 72 hour rule?? Thanks[/quote]
There isn’t anything that’s reasonable about the requirement to leave particularly if they are cutting the re-entry time to 30 days.
I’d say it’s time to think outside the box and figure out if something else is possible. Have you covered all of the legal bases?
There are several ways to obtain residency. Have you investigated anything other than pensionado? Rentista? Inversionista?
1 – Do you have an income while you are in Costa Rica?
It’s illegal for you to work in Costa Rica except in particular circumstances.2 – Are you over 59 1/2 and eligible to draw on the 401k?
Using up your 401k may or may not be a viable idea. There may be ways to get your financial institution to guarantee a monthly income until you get SS.3 – How long to Social Security?
Can you work out a way to last until then?Obviously you are here. Have you been here long enough to have to deal with the Tico way of doing thigs? That, from personal experience, can be very frustrating. I’va had to make major changes in expectations. You need to make sure that this is what you really want.
I’ll send a PM.
[quote=”Klyph”]We are planning on building outside of Tambor and wanted to investigate the use of geothermal to cool the house.[/quote]
I would say you would need volcanic heat to work with geothermal and Tambor is a long way from that. Geothermal heat would only be available through the central mountain chain.
[quote=”costaricafinca”]We have 6 dogs, over 20 turkeys plus one young peacock, of all sizes, free ranging and it does help keep the bugs away, but they don’t venture far from the houses …the turkeys that is…or their roost and unfortunately the insects do.[/quote]
We free ranged for a while but had a problem in finding the eggs they were laying everywhere. Finally built a gallinero and everything is working well
[quote=”editer”] “What Do You Mean I Can’t Grow My Own Food Anymore.” [/quote]
That would be a real reason for revolution. Most of the people I know have at least a tomato plant growing in the back yard.
[quote=”guru”] The economic failure and soft real estate market has probably ended the possibility of my move to CR. I keep hoping it will get better, but it just gets worse and worse. . .[/quote]
What, then, should be the penalty for taking a persons financial condition and future away?Michael Milken was a great example of the slap on the wrist.
I vote to hang ’em.
[quote=”alexander69″]Good Advice! We are “in process” also but do not have any number yet.[/quote]
If you are “in process” you should have a document titled [b]Comprobante Requisitos, Expediente No. 135-xxxxxx[/b] with check marks beside the documents that you have filed.
The Expediente No 135-xxxxxx is the number that you use to find information or you can give her your U.S. passport number.
If you are using an attorney, the attorney should have a copy of the Expediente.
[quote=”grb1063″] The mortgage meltdown was fostered by key government legislation during Carter and Clinton that basically extorted small community banks to loan money to people that have no business or means of repaying a loan or they would be barred from opening additonal branches.[/quote]
I have no argument with your contention regarding the banks. What I won’t do is get into the issue of left/right, Democrat/Republican or up/down.What the progressives did the conservatives could have undone during their time in office and vice versa.
There was no oversight to prevent the [b]private mortagage lenders[/b] from writing anything they could dream up.
The end result is that we see our income being sucked away by a falling exchange rate due to a failing dollar.
[quote=”Blade Runner”] The Republicans did the cuts in such a way that it would be nearly impossible for the next administration to allow the taxes to raise back to their pre-Bush levels.
How did the Republicans ever expect to pay for the two needless wars that thet started?[/quote]
They didn’t expect to have to. Poor political thinking and planning in the wars in the first place assumed that the U.S. would be through Iraq and done in about 6 months. Afghanistan was a plan to only get the Taliban out and execute bin Laden.
The Bush administration was long in assuming great military strength and short in their recall of the history of both nations. The British failed in Iraq and gave it up in the ’50’s and the Russians failed in Afghanistan in the ’80’s.
The greater political errors were policies of laissez faire that allowed rogue financial instruments in the mortgage lending, banking and investment industries and supply side economics neither of which has worked in the past.
Hindsight is a great thing if you have the intelligence to use it. Bush is the only MBA ever elected to office but obviously learned little about economics.
Costa Rica has been directly affected by the problems in the States as has the entire world to a greater or lesser degree. We do feel it here with the exchange rate deteriorating as it has over the past year.
[quote=”grb1063″]People in Us are waiting to see how much farther they have to bend over for Uncle Sam,state and local taxes. Personal income taxes for 2011 going up as follows:
10% to 15%
15% stays 15%
25%-28%
28%-31%
31%-36%
36%-39.6%
We will all need 10% raises to stay even. Capital gains from 15%-20% and dem. movement to take back to 28%.
Mean while sales tax here in Seattle is up to 9.5% and may go to 9.8%. Income tax on wealthy on the ballot (bad precedent for threshhold can be lowered). License tabs possibley going up by $100 (120% jump). Most fees have gone up 50-100% and no end in site. Makes one wonder why expatriations are up 300%. Should be a huge midterm election participation.[/quote]Federal income taxes and capital gains go back to what they were before the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003.
Reducing taxes while fighting two wars and presiding over an economic meltdown from 2001 to 2009 raised the debt to GDP by a whopping 26.63%. Somebody has to pay and you can bet it wont be GWB, it’ll be you and me.
Income tax on the wealthy for Washington state? Should be OK if linked to cost of living unless you’re one of the wealthy. God knows every level of government is having problems with the unemployment what it is.
