Residency Update -
No, I still do not have my "número
de expediente". This is the doc you need to end the "visa/border
runs" while waiting for temporary residency to be approved
(Lavanson received his a few wks ago)
I phoned my lawyer to check on the status and was
told that the hold up is that the apostille of my birth certificate
has not yet been received. Everything else is good.
Mine will be coming from Kansas and BTW
there are some states that take forever and a day just to get the
certified birth certificate. One of the worst is NY. So just be aware
if you need to get your BC from NY you will have a long wait. You
might want to start on it early to give it enough time to get to you
or it can also hold up the process.
~~~~~~About the Apostille~~~~~~
Costa Rican government agencies cannot
accept official documents issued abroad without the proper
legalization procedure. Think of it as “exporting” the document
to Costa Rica.
If your home country is party to the
Apostille Convention (such as the USA and most of Europe, but not
Canada), you can have your foreign document (such as birth
certificate or police check) apostilled by the competent local
authority.
If your home country is not party to the
Apostille Convention then you will need the document authenticated by
the Costa Rican consulate in that country. At Costa Rica Immigration
Experts we can guide you through this process.
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