The Immigration Department has issued a new resolution aiming to simplify the requirements for residency for ongoing applications filed by October 14, 2019. The background check requirement listed on item 1 below, however, is suggested for all new applications as well. Below a summary of the
Last November 6th, new factors came into effect which apply to the “Manual of Procedures for the Inspection of Vehicles in Fiscal Warehouses and Eventually in the Ports.” According to the newly introduced regulation, the main objective is to verify the conditions that forbid the
Some of you may remember the mass wedding ceremonies that we performed in February and March of 2015. At that time, we married about 140 couples with the intention of obtaining local marriage certificates from the Costa Rican Civil Registry, allowing them to avoid the
The Costa Rican real estate industry is growing slowly due to the economic slowdown that our country is currently going through. However, there still are plenty of real estate projects being developed in urban and rural areas and, of course, they come with a lot
¿COMO AMANECIÓ? (ko-mo a-ma-ne-sio) This expression is used in both Costa Rica and Mexico and, with a very slight variation, in Spain as well (¿Cómo ha amanecido?). Most Costa Ricans are known for being friendly and polite and this extends to the language. If you were born
CHINEADO/CHINEADA (tʃi-ne-aðo / tʃi-ne-aða) The word chineado/chineada is both an adjective and the past participle of the verb chinear. In Spanish, unlike English and many other languages, we use an “o”-ending to indicate that an adjective refers to a male subject and an “a”-ending to refer
Let’s dispense with the suspense first; the answer to the question above is always a resounding, “Yes!” But let us explain a little bit about the history of the Social Security system in Costa Rica in order to better understand what we know as the “Caja.” The Caja Costarricense del Seguro