New 90 day rule enforcement??

[RatBastard]

http://insidecostarica.com/2014/08/04/new-law-comes-effect-overstay-visa/

Should we be worried about this new interpretation of the rules? or will it be the same ole shit??? Or will it really be that easy to pay $100 each month overstay??

 

[jensinc]

I don't think there are many left here who don't have their residency. GL to you though

 

[NES]

If you dont like making lines at immigration you may consider just knocking up a Tica

 

[RaoulDuke]

If you dont like making lines at immigration you may consider just knocking up a Tica

Tica, Gringa doesn't matter. Just have a kid here and you are fine. Got mine in 3 weeks without a lawyer involved (total time spent at immigration for the whole process less than 2 hours). Beyond easy to do. Amazing all these people who got lawyers paid out their ass and are still waiting years later to get their cedula.

 

[jensinc]

There is a flight to a place in Nicaragua every month. You leave in the morning, have brunch and come back in the afternoon.

http://www.saronggoddess.com/Travel/VisaRenewal-Nicaragua-SanJuan/27772764_ZqFj7w

someone documented their trip here

https://www.storehouse.co/stories/k4x9-brunch-in-nicaragua

 

[seadawg]

Took the trip and it was the absolute best, including all the free rum. But alas in May a bunch of peeps made a spat about not getting the "90" day stamp and now the trip is no more...........go ahead and perhaps things have changed. www.therioindolodge.com

 

[jensinc]

Immigration Administration's $100 fine for expired visas does not affect tourists, agency says


Costa Rica’s Immigration Administration will begin enforcing a fine at its borders Monday for travelers whose temporary residency visas have expired.

The $100 per-month fine will only affect people with expired residency visas or temporary work permits. While the fine has stirred up dissent among the Nicaraguan immigrant community, many of whom are here on temporary work permits, it will not be applied to travelers whose tourism visas have expired.

“There is no type of fine or penalty for people who overstay a tourist visa,” Heidy Bonilla, a spokeswoman for the Immigration Administration, told The Tico Times. “People caught overstaying a tourist visa will be deported, but not fined.”

Bonilla clarified that foreigners caught with expired visas on their way out of Costa Rica will not be detained as long as they leave the country immediately.