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Perpetual Tourists – Good Time to Get Legal or Get Gone
October 1st, 2013
Perpetual Tourists (PTs) are those folks who come to Costa Rica to live but have no intention of applying for legal residency. They are under the mistaken impression that they can just leave Costa Rica every 90 days to “renew” their visa. Some have done this for years and so will argue that it is OK. However… This has never been legal, but sadly, it has never been made strictly illegal. Immigration has had many opportunities to remedy or clarify this problem, but instead it has skirted the issue time and again. Therefore, what we have now is a most unpleasant and even dangerous situation. We have the immigration officials at airports and at the international frontiers who pretty much seem to be acting on their own seemingly having received no guidance from their supervisors. I know of nothing worse than bureaucrats acting on their own.
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