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Immigration Services

Residencies, work permits and renewals for foreign executives, investors, retirees and their families in Costa Rica.

Our Immigration Department constantly provides advice and assistance to individuals and companies that wish to work or operate in Costa Rica, or simply reside in our country.

Maintaining a legal immigration status in line with the needs of each person is of the utmost importance: it not only avoids legal problems with the country’s immigration authorities, but also ensures that the person can lead a normal life in Costa Rica.

Our specialists provide the assistance required to work, settle, retire, invest or start a business. Whether you need a work permit, a residency, a visa, or you must complete any immigration application or process, our experts will be of great help.

Among the immigration services we provide are the following:

Registration of companies before the Directorate of Migration and Foreigners.
Processing, obtaining and renewal of work permits, temporary and permanent residencies, residencies for rentiers, residencies as an investor and residencies as a pensioner.
Processing, obtaining and renewal of special visas for students, researchers, teachers and volunteers.
Permits for digital nomads.
Processing, obtaining and extension of tourist visas.
Registration of Costa Rican citizens born abroad.
Obtaining and renewal of passports.
Processing, obtaining and variation of exit permits for minors.
Assistance in processing and obtaining visas for the United States of America and other countries.
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