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It is vacation time again. After a couple of weeks of surfing and living on peanut butter sandwiches, who would want to abandon paradise? Usually after such a vacation, nobody wants to go back home and thinks of making a living in Costa Rica as a realtor. Someone posted the following question on the ARCR […]
by Ivo Henfling
Some online newspapers like Inside Costa Rica have been reporting that a new article of the immigration law in Costa Rica, obliges hotels, bed & breakfast and hostels as well as landlords, to be asking to see your visa or cedula to ensure you are in the country legally. As of August 1st 2014, all hotels, bed & breakfast, […]
by Ivo Henfling
The Costarican government has been working hard. Between Costa Rica Immigration Services and the CCSS, the Costarican government has been trying to control the flow of illegal Nicaraguans into the country because so many work illegally and many who hire them don’t pay CCSS or Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social. Unfortunately, the gringos who live […]
by Ivo Henfling
I have my real estate license in Michigan, so I know what I’m doing”. I’m sorry but you don’t, at least not in Costa Rica. The US doesn’t have a nationwide real estate license either. Costa Rica is another country with a different language and very different rules than the US. Real estate licensing is […]
by Ivo Henfling
In the past, just about anyone (residents and non-residents alike) could get a driver’s license in Costa Rica. But, last year, the government announced that new driver’s licenses would be granted to foreigners ONLY after they have obtained legal residency. And it appears that even those who have applied for residency, but are still waiting […]
by Ivo Henfling
by Ivo Henfling for the Easy Times You are single and you fell in love after you moved to Costa Rica. Now you have to decide if you want to stay in Costa Rica to start a family or move with your partner to the US? You will find there are lots of reasons your […]
by Ivo Henfling
by Brooke Bishop for the Easy Times My mom has been staying with us since November, so we knew that around February we would need to leave the country for her 72 hours out. I am a resident in Costa Rica, so have never had to leave the country unless I wanted to, so there […]
by Ivo Henfling
by guest blogger Paula Kat-Friedman The Easy Times has had numerous request from readers to help find a solution to the problem of getting or renewing the Caja carnet, necessary to renew legal residency in Costa Rica. Many expats have different problems with getting this carnet or getting it renewed. Or they have a problem […]
by Ivo Henfling
Obtain Costa Rica residency through your real estate purchase. You can buy a property anywhere in Costa Rica, live in it and use the purchase as an investment to apply for your Costa Rica residency. In January of 2011, the government published the proposed regulation to the Immigration law and allows for more flexibility in […]
by Ivo Henfling
by guest blogger attorney Adrian Fernandez Madrigal Expats in Costa Rica seeking to regularize their migratory condition should take the opportunity the Costa Rican Government is currently offering, for a limited time only. The Costa Rica Immigration Department based on four transitory articles included in the latest Bylaws to the new Immigration Act will grant […]
by Ivo Henfling
